Sentences with phrase «radioactive cesium in»

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.

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The breached reactor would then spew «16 percent of the core inventory» — «inventory» meaning cesium 137, along with 68 other radioactive isotopes in the hot nuclear fuel.

Hayes, along with Sergey Sholom of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, tested this idea with two AAA battery sized capsules of radioactive substances — cobalt - 60 and cesium - 137.

«The [radioactive] cesium and iodine showing up in releases shows the fuel has been damaged.»

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

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accidenIn their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accidenin the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

And that means there may be two direct paths for radioactive particle byproducts of nuclear fission, such as cesium 137 and iodine 131, to escape and spread radiation — cracks in containment as well as the spent fuel pools now open to the air.

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.

Among the dozens of radioactive substances naturally present in seawater (of which cesium - 137 is one), uranium - 238 and potassium - 40 are the ones present in the greatest abundance.

We would generally not be able to measure strontium or plutonium or other radioactive elements if we could not detect cesium because these other elements would be present in such minute amounts that our instruments are not capable of detecting them.

You sweat out phthalates, you sweat out BPAs, stuff in plastic, pesticides, radioactive metals, cesium and things like that from Fukushima.

Fourteen months later, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl exploded and burned for 40 days, spreading radioactive fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, depositing cesium - 137 in Minnesota's milk [1] and Japan's topsoil.

In 2011, the EPA made the determination that fracking waste is too radioactive (from exposure to underground cesium and uranium) to be processed in municipal waste facilitieIn 2011, the EPA made the determination that fracking waste is too radioactive (from exposure to underground cesium and uranium) to be processed in municipal waste facilitiein municipal waste facilities.

Her work focused on measuring the molecules in seawater, like carbon dioxide, oxygen, and also radioactive molecules like cesium - 137.