Sentences with phrase «radioactive cesium»

As for people, more than 3,000 individuals from a town 23 kilometers north of the stricken nuclear plant also bore detectable levels of radioactive cesium in their bodies.

In 2011 we tested 15 Pacific bluefin tuna, known migrants from Japan, for radioactive cesium from Fukushima.

Despite the fact contaminated water was dumped into the sea after the disaster, studies by Japanese and foreign labs have shown radioactive cesium in fish caught in the region has fallen and is now within Japan's food safety limits.

If the fuel rods are no longer being cooled — as has happened at all three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant operating at the time of the earthquake — then the zirconium cladding will swell and crack, releasing the uranium fuel pellets and fission byproducts, such as radioactive cesium and iodine, among others.

We plan to test many species for radioactive cesium.

Slimy spike - cap mushrooms (Gomphidius glutinosus)(right) can uptake radioactive cesium - 137.

Two radioactive cesium isotopes, cesium - 134 and cesium - 137, have been detected offshore of Vancouver, British Columbia, researchers said at a news conference.

The sands took up and retained radioactive cesium originating from the disaster in 2011 and have been slowly releasing it back to the ocean.

But Moniz has said it could be ideal for some kinds of waste, particularly 1936 slender, half - meter - long tubes of highly radioactive cesium - 137 and strontium - 90.

When they plotted the number of tracks against the dose of radioactive Cesium experienced in different parts of the reserve, the researchers found that radiation levels aren't correlated with animal abundance.

It's a Gammator 50, an instructional device containing radioactive cesium - 137.

The concentrations of radioactive cesium near Japan, for example, were much higher than the concentrations along the West Coast of the US.

This can help us understand such things as how ions move from water into a cell membrane, or how to extract Hanford's radioactive cesium from water using oil or other organic solvents.»

Since the methods involved here can be initially investigated using harmless non-radioactive cesium, which has the same chemical properties as radioactive cesium (in terms of detectability using Cesium Green), it is a highly versatile method that requires no special experimental facilities.

While the levels of radioactive cesium were some 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off California in previous years, it is still below safe - to - eat limits in both Japan and the U.S..

After analyzing 82 specimens of Burgundy truffle (Tuber aestivum) from across Europe, researchers report online November 10 in Biogeosciences Discussions that all of the sought - after delicacies contained insignificant concentrations of radioactive cesium - 137.

Subsequent explosions and fire spewed 15,000 terabecquerels of radioactive cesium 137 alone, enough so that officials created an «exclusion zone» of 20 kilometers around the plant that persists today.

Some of the highest levels of radioactive cesium - 137, a major by - product of nuclear power generation, are now found in the somewhat salty groundwater beneath sand beaches tens of kilometers away, a new study shows.

The research team — Virginie Sanial, Ken Buesseler, and Matthew Charette of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Seiya Nagao of Kanazawa University — hypothesize that high levels of radioactive cesium - 137 released in 2011 were transported along the coast by ocean currents.

Since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the discharge of radioactive cesium, especially 137Cs (half - life: 30.17 years), into the environment has become a serious environmental problem.

He led the invention and chemical development of the Caustic Side Solvent Extraction process to remove nearly all radioactive cesium from high - level waste tanks.