Sentences with phrase «radioactive caesium»
They found that they contain only negligible amounts of radioactive caesium, and are safe for consumption.
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Liquid wastes containing radioactive caesium and strontium salts were stored in underground tanks at Hanford, which rabbits routinely burrowed into.
An estimated 50 million gallons of liquid wastes from Cold War plutonium production processes - laced with radioactive caesium and strontium salts - were dumped in a 13.7 sq. mile area south of central Hanford's 177 underground radioactive waste tanks.
After 45 days, this group was reported as having improved immune function, and most notably «spirulina was particularly efficient at deactivating radioactive caesium from their bodies.»
Swiss and German researchers have analysed Burgundy truffles collected in central Europe and found they contain only negligible amounts of radioactive caesium, being safe for consumption.
After filtering to remove radioactive caesium, Tepco stores the water — huge volumes of it — in 1060 tanks, each holding up to 1000 tonnes.
Hills and uplands in Wales and northwestern England could soon turn from green to navy blue as scientists try to «lock up» radioactive caesium deposited by rain after the Chernobyl disaster.
Not exact matches
Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.
They also have filtered venting systems so that even if cooling fails and pressure starts to build in the containment building, radioactive iodine and caesium can be removed from the steam before it is released.
MEXT, the Japanese science ministry, has been monitoring radioactive iodine and caesium, considered most harmful to health, in soil 25 to 58 kilometres from the plant since 18 March.
The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health risk — especially outside the immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl.
Japan's damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
Whereas iodine - 131 has a half - life of 8 days, caesium - 134 has a half - life of 2 years and caesium - 137 is a whopping 30 years — meaning it takes that long for half of the radioactive atoms in each substance to disintegrate.
The most common radioactive elements that end up in the environment from a leak or explosion are iodine and caesium.
Swept along by winds and settled by heavy rains, radioactive particles, especially caesium - 137 (137Cs), polluted large stretches of the European continent.