• Radioactive fallout from a nuclear reactor can be considered in two groups: isotopes of the noble gases (xenon, krypton-133) are radioactive elements with a very low chemical reactivity, relatively short half-lives, are not retained by the body and they remain and become dispersed in the air without ground deposition. (apjjf.org)
  • The second and more dangerous radioactive fallout group is represented by mainly the radioactive isotopes of iodine, cesium, and tellurium. (apjjf.org)
  • Radioactive isotopes of cesium such as 134Cs and 137Cs are produced by nuclear fission in fuel rods in nuclear power plants and in fallout from nuclear weapons. (cdc.gov)
  • Radioactive isotopes of caesium are used in the medical field to treat certain types of cancer . (wikidoc.org)
  • One of the radioactive isotopes of strontium ,90Sr, is a product of nuclear fallout and presents a health problem. (thetruthdenied.com)
  • The part that scientists didn't understand until about 100 years ago is that certain elements have isotopes that are radioactive. (howstuffworks.com)
  • In some elements, all of the isotopes are radioactive. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. (jellyfish.news)
  • Major Aleksei Grushin repeatedly took to the skies above Chernobyl and Belarus and used artillery shells filled with silver iodide to make rain clouds that would "wash out" radioactive particles drifting towards densely populated cities. (jellyfish.news)
  • If you still think that Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings was the worst ever radiation fallout in the history of mankind, then you need to know more about the city in Ukraine called Chernobyl. (shindigweb.com)
  • Online data from the Chernobyl exclusion zone's automated radiation-monitoring system shows that gamma radiation has increased twenty times above usual levels at multiple observation points, which officials from the Ukrainian nuclear agency attributed to radioactive dust thrown up by the movement of heavy military equipment in the area. (livescience.com)
  • As one of the most radioactive places in the world, large parts of the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been closed off since the disastrous meltdown of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. (livescience.com)
  • was 251 microsieverts a year, compared with 0.199 from Chernobyl fallout in the leaves" ( Radiation Protection Dosimetry , vol 123, p 68). (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • A few months after reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went up in toxic flames in 1986, it was encased in a concrete and steel "sarcophagus" to contain the radioactive material inside. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • At Three Mile Island and Chernobyl , nuclear power plants released radioactive substances into the atmosphere during nuclear accidents. (howstuffworks.com)
  • In some ways, the fire and fallout from Chernobyl are secondary crises-products of the Kafka-esque absurdity of life during the Cold War. (guernicamag.com)
  • The most radioactive place on Earth is the abandoned city of Pripyat, located near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. (planetsedu.com)
  • The most radioactive locations are found within the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl Power Plant, particularly the destroyed reactor number four. (planetsedu.com)
  • Yes, after the Chernobyl disaster, radioactive particles were carried by wind currents, reaching various countries in Europe. (planetsedu.com)
  • Dozens of independent experts report that radiation attributable health effects are highly likely. (counterpunch.org)
  • If the substance is radioactive, you may also be exposed to radiation if you are near it. (cdc.gov)
  • Naturally occurring sources of radiation are cosmic radiation from space or radioactive materials in soil or building materials. (cdc.gov)
  • If you're wearing clothing, take it all off and get showered to remove the radiation - the radioactive material that might be on you. (familysurvivalplanning.com)
  • Radiation Dispersal Device - A conventional explosion has scattered radioactive material ("dirty bomb"), saboteurs blew up a truck carrying radioactive material, or an aerosol containing radioactive material has been spread over a large area. (cdc.gov)
  • They can be any protected space, provided that the walls and roof are thick and dense enough to absorb the radiation given off by fallout particles. (tarinenharma.pl)
  • Internal contamination via inhalation, ingestion, absorption through open wounds Other physical hazards (e.g., debris, fire/heat, or chemicals) PPE cannot protect against exposure from high energy, highly penetrating forms of ionizing radiation 2 associated with most radiation emergencies. (tarinenharma.pl)
  • I suggest using a Reverse Osmosis system, which may be effective in removing "most" of the radiation particles or drinking water drawn from below the ground. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Fallout emits the highest levels of radiation for the first six hours after the detonation. (ultimate-survival-training.com)
  • Radioactive decay is accompanied by the emission of energetic particles and light rays which are harmful to humans, so actinide researchers like Abergel's team can work with only small amounts of these elements to keep the radiation dose within safe limits. (berkeleysciencereview.com)
  • The nuclear radiation impact in the city was about hundred times more than any other nuclear fallout. (shindigweb.com)
  • Japanese officials have declared only a 12 ½-mile evacuation zone despite the fact that radiation levels outside and above the deteriorating nuclear power station have reached intolerably high levels due to releases of radioactive steam. (socialistaction.org)
  • Nuclear explosions emit high levels of radiation that is highly hazardous for humans. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • They offer great protection from radiation and ionizing particles. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • Previously Edward A. Martell, Ph.D., had said in 249 Nature 217 (1974), 'Thus, it seems that alpha radiation from Polonium 210 in insoluble smoke particles may be the primary agent of bronchial cancer in smoking. (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • Green: Radiation (0.74-mile radius) - Within at least 15 minutes of a blast, clouds of dust and sandlike radioactive particles - what's referred to as nuclear fallout - would reach the ground. (sluiceartfair.com)
  • A few cubic feet of harmless gas, zero injuries, and not a single particle of radiation released into the atmosphere. (energyandcapital.com)
  • The radioactive fallout from the disaster rendered the area highly dangerous, with radiation levels significantly exceeding normal background levels. (planetsedu.com)
  • Understanding the most radioactive places on Earth and the risks associated with radiation is crucial for our safety. (planetsedu.com)
  • Radiation is energy transmitted in the form of electromagnetic waves or energetic particles. (medscape.com)
  • Ionizing radiation can also be in the form of particulate radiation, which includes subatomic l charged or neutral particles traveling near the speed of light and therefore with high very high kinetic energy. (medscape.com)
  • Ionizing radiation is emitted by radioactive elements and by equipment such as x-ray and radiation therapy machines. (msdmanuals.com)
  • They collide with the nuclei of stable atoms, resulting in the emission of energetic protons, alpha and beta particles, and gamma radiation. (msdmanuals.com)
  • It commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash created when a nuclear weapon explodes, but this dust can also be originated in a damaged nuclear plant. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Understand that fallout refers to the radioactive particles that fall to earth after a nuclear explosion. (ultimate-survival-training.com)
  • This reactor has mixed reprocessed plutonium and uranium oxides for fuel (MOX), and is extremely worrisome because inhaling even the most minute particles of plutonium is lethal. (socialistaction.org)
  • Another highly radioactive location is the Hanford Site in Washington State, USA, which produced plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War era. (planetsedu.com)
  • It's also been estimated that plutonium fallout has been 70,000 times greater than atomic bomb fallout in Japan! (beforeitsnews.com)
  • a radioactive isotope of carbon. (wordinn.com)
  • The 90Sr isotope is present in radioactive fallout and has a half-life of 28.90 years. (testbourne.com)
  • Among those physical agents considered suitable for evaluation by the Monographs, and assigned high priority at that time, were electric and magnetic fields, the radioactive isotope iodine-131, and radioactive wastes. (who.int)
  • Note that the longer fuel is irradiated in the reactor core, the more radioactive it becomes due to the build-up of fission by-products which also contaminate the fuel limiting its usable life. (apjjf.org)
  • Consequently, serious damage has been done to the reactor cores and spent fuel rod pools, which have experienced either hydrogen explosions or fires, releasing radioactive steam and smoke. (socialistaction.org)
  • Reactor No. 3: Its housing experienced a hydrogen explosion and its primary stainless steel containment vessel is ruptured and leaking radioactive steam. (socialistaction.org)
  • In that year, two explosions inside the plant's reactor flipped its 2,000-ton (1,800 metric tons) lid like a coin, blanketing the surrounding 1,000-square-mile (2,600 square kilometers) with radioactive dust and reactor chunks. (livescience.com)
  • After a decade of round-the-clock work, the reactor is still releasing millions of tons of radioactive waste into the water. (energyandcapital.com)
  • (noun) radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed. (wordinn.com)
  • The destroyed reactor sites have been dumping hundreds of tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean, every single day for the past four years and the devastating results are now becoming plainly obvious. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • High doses of radioactive materials are still leaking from the tops and the bottoms of the reactor buildings every moment of every day. (uchicago.edu)
  • It is believed that the problem at unit 4 is based not on cooling the shut-down reactor itself, but that a nearby storage pool, which holds spent but still highly radioactive fuel rods, was breached and so water kept draining out and exposing parts of the rods to the air. (sundayobserver.lk)
  • Stable (not radioactive) cesium ( 133 Cs) has been identified in at least 8 of the 1,636 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) (HazDat 2003). (cdc.gov)
  • Cesium is also used in highly accurate atomic clocks. (cdc.gov)
  • Radioactive forms of cesium are produced by the fission of uranium in fuel elements (fuel rods) during the normal operation of nuclear power plants, or when nuclear weapons are exploded. (cdc.gov)
  • Radioactive forms of cesium are unstable and eventually change into other more stable elements through the process of radioactive decay. (cdc.gov)
  • After filtration to remove the waste, the radioactive cesium phosphotungstate is precipitated using phosphotungstic acid (Burt 1993). (cdc.gov)
  • One of the most interesting uses of cesium is in the production of highly accurate atomic clocks. (cdc.gov)
  • Splitting uranium atoms produces a cocktail of 100-plus chemicals that are radioactive waste products, including Cesium-137, Iodine-131, and Strontium-90. (ipsecinfo.org)
  • In November 2011, the Japanese Science Ministry reported that radioactive cesium had contaminated 11,580 square miles of the land surface of Japan, with an additional 4,500 square miles contaminated. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Radioactive cesium (an alkali metal) rapidly contaminates an ecosystem and poisons the entire food chain, and this waste offshoot has been detected in Japanese foodstuffs over a 200 mile radius of the Daiichi facility. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Cesium and other radioactive waste products are bioaccumulative, meaning that they accumulate in an organism at a rate faster than the organism can eliminate it. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Even the Japanese government's underestimated data shows that the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster released 168 times the cesium 137 discharged by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, which entailed about 168 times the fallout at Hiroshima. (uchicago.edu)
  • Beta particles are high-energy electrons that are emitted from the nuclei of unstable atoms (eg, cesium-137, iodine-131). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Instead, they're formed during atomic bomb explosions or made in special reactors where high-energy particles slam together to generate new atoms. (berkeleysciencereview.com)
  • Iodine-131 is a beta emitter and is absorbed into the blood stream through inhalation and ingestion and concentrated by the thyroid gland where it is highly carcinogenic, predominantly in young people under 18 years of age. (apjjf.org)
  • Potassium iodide tablets are being distributed to prevent the thyroid cancer that results from exposure to radioactive Iodine-131. (socialistaction.org)
  • Similarly remarkable concentration and fractionation processes are involved in the inhalation, deposition, retention, clearance, and accumulation of insoluble particles in the lung and other organs. (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • In addition, insoluble dust particle accumulations in the lung and lymph nodes may ulcerate into adjoining blood vessels and be carried elsewhere in via the blood circulation. (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • Thus long term exposure to insoluble particles of respirable size leads to their accumulation in the lung. (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • This will also pose a severe risk to athletes and spectators through inhaling insoluble radioactive particles floating in the air . (uchicago.edu)
  • First, UNSCEAR improved on the World Health Organization's health assessment of the disaster's on-going radioactive contamination. (counterpunch.org)
  • During the early response to large-scale radioactive contamination events, people who are potentially affected need to be screened for radioactive contamination and public health staff need to triage individuals who may need immediate decontamination. (cdc.gov)
  • These masks not only protect against pathogens such as viruses, bacteria and spores, they also filter out carcinogenic and radioactive substances including nanoparticles. (tarinenharma.pl)
  • Study Tobacco firms' own research showed dangers" (September 2011), says "Tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic but kept that information from the public. (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • Man-made sources of radioactive materials are found in consumer products, industrial equipment, atom bomb fallout, and to a smaller extent from hospital waste, medical devices, and nuclear reactors. (cdc.gov)
  • Understanding why a meltdown would be so devastating is possible only after recognizing that nuclear reactors produce the same radioactive chemicals in atomic bomb explosions. (ipsecinfo.org)
  • Most radioactive waste is stored, but some is routinely or accidentally released into air and water from all 104 U.S. nuclear reactors. (ipsecinfo.org)
  • The whole world is watching as a reduced crew of engineers and technicians struggles to gain control of the situation by venting radioactive steam and pumping in seawater to cool down the reactors in "feed and bleed" operations, while desperately trying to raise rapidly falling water levels in the fuel-rod storage pools at the Fukushima nuclear power station. (socialistaction.org)
  • More recently, Naohiro Masuda, the decommissioning chief of the Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Company, also stated that the technology does not exist to remove the highly radioactive debris from the damaged reactors: "Ono also claimed that decommissioning the plant by 2051 may be impossible without huge leaps in technological advancement. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • This will only change if one or more of the reactors melt down, which may cause plumes of radioactive dust to move offshore. (sundayobserver.lk)
  • Furthermore, in order to simulate the deposition density of specific radionuclides or total radioactivity, a modelis required for the spatial distribution of radionuclides in the initial debris cloud as well as the distribution of activity as a function of particle size. (icaad.ngo)
  • The most computationally burdensome factors in performing the simulations are the large size of the debris cloud and,therefore, the large numberof particles and particle sizes that are needed to conducta realistic fallout simulation over long distances. (icaad.ngo)
  • Commonly found underground in garages, basements or old mine shafts, these locations provide strong shielding from penetrating rays as well as radioactive debris. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • UNSCEAR also admitted that "people all over Japan" were affected by radioactive fallout (not just in Fukushima Prefecture) through contact with airborne or ingested radioactive materials. (counterpunch.org)
  • Years later the effects of nuclear fallout from Fukushima will have diverse effects on the population and animals following a series of low dose exposures. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • 2018). Some games are planned to be held at grounds or facilities located in highly contaminated areas of Fukushima and other prefectures (especially baseball and softball ). (uchicago.edu)
  • In this figure, the yellow particles are orbital electrons, the blue particles are neutrons and the red particles are protons. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Inside every atom are three subatomic particles: protons, neutrons and electrons. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Alpha particles are charged particles made up of 2 protons and 2 neutrons-essentially the nucleus of a helium atom. (medscape.com)
  • Technically, francium is the least common alkali metal, but since it is highly radioactive with an estimated 30 grams in the entire Earth's crust at one time, [1] its abundance can be considered zero in practical terms. (wikidoc.org)
  • Because of their relatively large mass and positive charge, alpha particles are highly effective in transferring energy to tissue but are also easily blocked by a piece of paper or clothing. (medscape.com)
  • 1. Radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • Nuclear Fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast or a nuclear reaction conducted in an unshielded facility, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and shock wave have passed. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Finally, the nuclear core itself was exposed, spewing radioactive material into the atmosphere. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The explosion released vast amounts of radioactive materials into the atmosphere, contaminating the surrounding area. (planetsedu.com)
  • They say the threat to human health however, is still confined within the exclusion zone around the stricken plants, in the absence of a major explosion that could send large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. (sundayobserver.lk)
  • You might check with your city government and ask if there are any fallout shelters and where they are located. (familysurvivalplanning.com)
  • Fallout shelters do not need to be specially constructed for protecting against fallout. (tarinenharma.pl)
  • Find out from officials if any public buildings in your community have been designated as fallout shelters. (tarinenharma.pl)
  • There are two kinds of shelters - blast and fallout. (tarinenharma.pl)
  • During the Cold War, fallout shelters were installed in many public buildings across America. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • If you live in a large city like New York or Chicago, however, there are still plenty of fallout shelters that may provide assistance during an emergency. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • These shelters are often situated in public places such as banks, movie theaters or university buildings and usually feature fallout shelter signs that read "Fallout Shelter. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • Public fallout shelters can be found within many major cities across America. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • Public fallout shelters have been around in America for decades and can be found throughout the country. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • Natural sources of air pollution are volcanic eruption, discharge of spores, conidia, endospores etc. of airborne micro-organisms, pollens of certain flowers, dust particles suspended in air. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • Fine dust particles released from cotton mills, floor mill or asbestos factory can cause serious respiratory problems and even may lead to cancer. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • The CARE experiment is intended to create an artificial dust layer at the boundary of space in a controlled sense, in order to "allow scientists to study different aspects of it, the turbulence generated on the inside, the distribution of dust particles and such. (thetruthdenied.com)
  • Aerosol: A system of liquid or solid particles uniformly distributed in a finely divided state through a gas, usually air. (nti.org)
  • These are solid particles and liquid droplets suspended in air. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • I was told this was a deadly biological weapon of mass extermination, calculated and designed to go airborne and thus,to be highly contagious. (thetruthdenied.com)
  • In fact, the islanders were exposed to highly radioactive fallout particles because of the wind blowing in the direction of the Marshall Island's Rongelap Atoll on the day of the tests. (wikipedia.org)
  • Project 4.1 was a research operation set up by the Americans immediately after Castle Bravo to study the effects of radioactive fallout on the Marshall Islanders, who were not told of the existence of the project or of the continuing risks to which they were being daily exposed. (thecultureist.com)
  • Heavy fighting around the plant on Thursday (Feb. 24) led to concerns that stray munitions could accidentally pierce the exploded reactor's two layers of protection - consisting of a new, outer safe-confinement structure and an inner concrete sarcophagus - and release the deadly radioactive fallout trapped inside. (livescience.com)
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, Strontium-90 was often cited as one of the most toxic chemicals in bomb fallout. (ipsecinfo.org)
  • And while the UNSCEAR acknowledged that "contaminated rice, beef, seafood, milk, milk powder, green tea, vegetables, fruits and tap water were found all over mainland Japan", it neglected "estimating doses for Tokyo … which also received a significant fallout both on March 15 and 21, 2011. (counterpunch.org)
  • This paper provides a methodology for calculating inhalation doses to public health and other response personnel at such facilities who would be receiving and assisting potentially contaminated persons from whom particles can be resuspended. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite the death of two people in the explosions, the hospitalization of workers and firefighters, and the danger from fallout and fire, no one in the surrounding areas-including the nearby city of Pripyat , which was built in the 1970s to house workers at the plant-was evacuated until about 36 hours after the disaster began. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The size and identity of particles was used to model their contribution to particulate organic carbon (POC) flux. (bvsalud.org)
  • the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion. (wordinn.com)
  • Fallout vividly reveals the story of the unnecessary building of the atomic bomb, the most destructive weapon in the world, and the long-term consequences that are still playing out to this day. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • These people, as well as those in the light damage areas who survived the blast, heat, and fire, the main danger would be radioactive fallout. (familysurvivalplanning.com)
  • Outside of the immediate blast zone, fallout can take over 15 minutes to drop down onto the earth. (ultimate-survival-training.com)
  • Being indoors during the blast will help, but if you are outside for any part of the detonation, it's important to minimize the amount of fallout you absorb once you're safe inside. (sluiceartfair.com)
  • But still, the fallout drifted long distances and contaminated the diet of all Americans. (ipsecinfo.org)
  • If water cooling a reactor's core or waste pools was removed, from mechanical failure or act of sabotage, huge amounts of toxic gases and particles would be released and breathed by humans. (ipsecinfo.org)
  • Model-based estimates of fallout can be valuable for use in the reconstruction of past exposures from nuclear testing, particularly where little historical fallout monitoring data are available. (icaad.ngo)
  • Paper PREDICTIONS OF DISPERSION AND DEPOSITION OF FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR TESTING USING THE NOAA-HYSPLIT METEOROLOGICAL MODEL Brian E. Moroz,* Harold L. Beck,' André Bouville,* and Steven L. Simon* were used in a limited fashion to support the dose reconstruction described in companion papers within this volume. (icaad.ngo)
  • 2010 Abstract-The NOAA Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model (HYSPLIT) was evaluated as a research tool to simulate the dispersion and deposition of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests. (icaad.ngo)
  • The ability to makereliable predictions about fallout deposition could also have significant importance for nuclear events in the future. (icaad.ngo)
  • Our findings suggest that the quantity and quality of meteorological data are the most important factors for accurate fallout predictions and that, when satisfactory meteorological input data are used, HYSPLIT can produce relatively accurate deposition patterns and fallout arrival times. (icaad.ngo)
  • A variety of simulations of the deposition of fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the Marshall Islands (mid-Pacific), at the Nevada Test Site (U.S.), and at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (Kazakhstan) were performed. (icaad.ngo)
  • modeling, meteorological INTRODUCTION CoMPUTER MODELS have been both influential and beneficial in predicting fallout dispersion and deposition. (icaad.ngo)
  • Modeling the transport and deposition of particles released from a nuclear weaponstest is both a complex and highly uncertain exercise. (icaad.ngo)
  • More than 4,000 square miles of Belarus were sacrificed to save the Russian capital from the toxic radioactive material. (jellyfish.news)
  • Since particles have mass, they are less penetrating than electromagnetic waves and deposit their energy readily. (medscape.com)
  • All the heavy actinides are also radioactive, which means that their atomic nuclei are unstable, and they are constantly decaying into other elements. (berkeleysciencereview.com)
  • Other processes for the removal of 134Cs and 137Cs from radioactive waste involve solvent extraction using macrocyclic polyethers, or crown ethers and coprecipitation with sodium tetraphenylboron (Burt 1993). (cdc.gov)
  • The treaty also prohibits the dumping of radioactive waste originating from outside the continent within the region. (nti.org)
  • The land and water in the Indian city is highly contaminated due to industrial waste. (shindigweb.com)
  • Of course the Japanese government and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) have blatantly lied about the amount of radioactive waste that has been leaking into the Pacific, however, the devastating results have been impossible to ignore. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • An alkaline earth metal, strontium is a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element that is highly reactive chemically. (testbourne.com)
  • But before beginning this endeavor, make sure you understand the rules for staying safe inside an underground fallout shelter. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • If you're worried about the safety of your family or yourself, it's essential to get to a fallout shelter as quickly as possible after an incident. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • While inside the shelter, you should cover your mouth and nose to protect them from fallout damage. (planningforsurvival.com)
  • Up the street from my apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, there's an office building, and on its side, drilled into the brick with rusting bolts, hangs an old black and yellow fallout shelter sign. (guernicamag.com)
  • Einsteinium, an element discovered in the fallout from the first hydrogen bomb, is not your everyday chemical reagent. (berkeleysciencereview.com)
  • For those on the West it's possible that your drinking water has radioactive particles. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • It has been an abandoned ghost town since the accident, and is now used as a laboratory to study fallout patterns. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Sodium 24, a radioactive substance, was detected in the vomit of three of the victims. (isis-online.org)
  • Such data on radioactivity rendering artery walls "highly permeable to the passage of red cells" helps explain what was described a century ago "Autopsies have revealed large foci of softening in the brain, hemorrhages into the meninges, and capillary apoplexies in the brain substance. (globalcigarettebrands.com)
  • As of August, 2013, TEPCO admitted that between "20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium may have leaked into the sea since the disaster. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Because of their high density, caesium chloride solutions are commonly used in molecular biology for density gradient ultracentrifugation, primarily for the isolation of viral particles, subcellular organelles and fractions, and nucleic acids from biological samples. (wikidoc.org)