• Individuals have recently spread alarm about the presence of radioactive isotopes already found along the Pacific coast, although those concerns were debunked. (barbrastreisand.com)
  • processed, packed into plastic vessels, and placed for one hour in a $200,000 germanium semiconductor detector to test for the presence of radioactive isotopes iodine, Cesium-137 and 134. (cbsnews.com)
  • You can also tell if a cat was born before 1945 if it doesn't contain any strontium-90 or cesium-137 isotopes. (reddit.com)
  • The submarine's reactor, loaded with nuclear fuel, is a source of other radioactive isotopes like cesium 137 and strontium 90. (bellona.org)
  • Only one isotope, 133Cs, is stable. (wikipedia.org)
  • Caesium-133 is the only stable isotope of caesium. (wikipedia.org)
  • Caesium-134 is not produced via beta decay of other fission product nuclides of mass 134 since beta decay stops at stable 134Xe. (wikipedia.org)
  • It decays via emission of a low-energy beta particle into the stable isotope barium-135. (wikipedia.org)
  • Compared to the other stable alkali metals, cesium has the lowest boiling point and melting point, highest vapor pressure, highest density, and lowest ionization potential. (cdc.gov)
  • Naturally occurring cesium is not radioactive and is referred to as stable cesium. (cdc.gov)
  • There is only one stable form of cesium naturally present in the environment, 133 Cs (read as cesium one-thirty-three). (cdc.gov)
  • Cesium chloride is a more stable and nonradioactive form of cesium. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Hg-196, 198-201, and 204 are stable mercury isotopes. (harvard.edu)
  • Selenium and stable mercury isotopes provide new insights into mercury toxicokinetics in pilot whales. (harvard.edu)
  • Mercury Stable Isotopes Reveal Influence of Foraging Depth on Mercury Concentrations and Growth in Pacific Bluefin Tuna. (harvard.edu)
  • Environmental Origins of Methylmercury Accumulated in Subarctic Estuarine Fish Indicated by Mercury Stable Isotopes. (harvard.edu)
  • Assessing sources of human methylmercury exposure using stable mercury isotopes. (harvard.edu)
  • Stable isotope (N, C, Hg) study of methylmercury sources and trophic transfer in the northern gulf of Mexico. (harvard.edu)
  • Today is the stable isotope of cesium, 133Cs, which is used in atomic clocks. (astronoo.com)
  • Cesium supplements are available in the market and are promoted as cesium chloride pills. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Some experts are of the opinion that cesium chloride could be beneficial in treating various types of cancers. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Cesium chloride helps to create an oxygen rich environment for the cancer cells. (diethealthclub.com)
  • large amounts of cesium chloride can make you lose consciousness. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Taking large amounts of cesium chloride could also result in diarrhea. (diethealthclub.com)
  • This is yet another dangerous side effect that could occur after taking large amounts of cesium chloride. (diethealthclub.com)
  • THE GOIÂNIA INCIDENT: In September 1987, two men in Goiânia, Brazil, discovered an abandoned international standard capsule containing less than 100 g of cesium-137 chloride. (bvsalud.org)
  • A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment. (nsf.gov)
  • Body distribution of cesium, iodine, chlormerodrin, as determined by sequential observations using the Spintharicon. (harvard.edu)
  • In addition to radioactive iodine, the body may also be exposed to a radioactive isotope of caesium known as Cesium-137 . (lewrockwell.com)
  • Many radioactive isotopes are used, such as iodine-125, gold-198, and cesium-137. (medscape.com)
  • Beta particles are high-energy electrons that are emitted from the nuclei of unstable atoms (eg, cesium-137, iodine-131). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Used to define the second Fission product Theoretically capable of spontaneous fission Caesium-131, introduced in 2004 for brachytherapy by Isoray, has a half-life of 9.7 days and 30.4 keV energy. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is known as Cesium-131 brachytherapy. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Cesium-131 brachytherapy or internal radiation treatment has demonstrated significantly positive results for prostate cancer. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • Cesium-131 is essentially an advanced brachytherapy isotope, commonly known as a radioactive seed that is implanted directly into the tumor cavity. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • The short half-life of Cesium-131 helps to cut down the severity and duration of these symptoms commonly associated with brachytherapy. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • The low decay energy, lack of gamma radiation, and long half-life of 135Cs make this isotope much less hazardous than 137Cs or 134Cs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The radioactive isotopes 137Cs and 134Cs are significant fission products because of their high fission yield, and their relatively long half-lives. (cdc.gov)
  • For right now I am only providing figures for two Isotopes Cesium-137 (137Cs) and Plutonium-241 (241Pu). (abovetopsecret.com)
  • Evaluation of the nutrient content of certain diets in regions with low incidence of cancer has advanced the use of certain alkali metals, i.e., rubidium and cesium, as chemotherapeutic agents. (essense-of-life.com)
  • Beginning in 1945 with the commencement of nuclear testing, caesium radioisotopes were released into the atmosphere where caesium is absorbed readily into solution and is returned to the surface of the Earth as a component of radioactive fallout. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cesium-131 is one of the latest and most advanced radioisotopes, which is helping to achieve more successful breakthroughs in cancer radiation treatment. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • Once caesium enters the ground water, it is deposited on soil surfaces and removed from the landscape primarily by particle transport. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cesium is a naturally occurring element found combined with other elements in rocks, soil, and dust in low amounts. (cdc.gov)
  • Cesium is present naturally in the soil and also as isotope 133. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Radiation exposure to food typically declines faster, since the cesium has travelled far since Chernobyl - washed out by rainwater , or driven down into the soil, so it stops being absorbed by plants and animals in the same initial quantities. (euronews.com)
  • The cesium migrates downwards through the soil very slowly, sometimes only about one millimetre per year. (euronews.com)
  • Nearly 30 years ago the explosion sent radioactive caesium-137 particles into the atmosphere, eventually drifting into Norway where they landed and absorbed into the soil. (barentsobserver.com)
  • The mushroom acts as a sponge for leaching caesium-137 out of the soil and scientists are certain it's the cause of the spike this year. (barentsobserver.com)
  • Quantification, nature and bioavailability of bound 14C-pesticide residues in soil, plants and food : proceedings of the Final Research Co-ordination Meeting on Isotopic Tracer-Aided Studies of Unextractable or Bound Pesticide Residues in Soil, Plants and Food / organized by the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development and held in Gainesville, Florida, from 25 to 29 March 1985. (who.int)
  • Approximately 800 trillion becquerel of Cesium-137 is expected to reach the West Coast of North America by 2016, according to Michio Aoyama, a professor at Japan's Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity. (unknowncountry.com)
  • The jump this year was significant: this September the reading was 8,200 becquerel of caesium-137 per kilo versus September 2012 when the reindeer were averaging 1,500 becquerel of caesium-137 per kilo. (barentsobserver.com)
  • In a paper just published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers from the Byrd Polar Research Center explain that levels of tritium, beta radioactivity emitters like strontium and cesium, and an isotope of chlorine are absent in all three cores taken from the Naimona'nyi glacier 19,849 feet (6,050 meters) high on the southern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Over time, though, as the cesium-137 from Chernobyl dispersed, the radiation levels of most animals within the massive fallout zone dropped to less-than-dangerous levels. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The results showed that while a total of about 90 per cent of the cesium-137 in Central Europe comes from Chernobyl, the proportion in the wild boar samples is much lower. (euronews.com)
  • Before understanding how cesium helps to treat prostate cancer, it is important to look at how cesium and cancer are connected. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Prostate cancer may be treated with cesium. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Cesium-131 was approved by the FDA in 2003 for treatment of prostate cancer and other malignant tumors. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • Another key benefit of Cesium-131 is that in comparison to other radioactive seeds used to treat prostate cancer, it has the shortest half-life of only about 10 days. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • Cesium-131 also ensures relatively rapid resolution of common side effects of prostate cancer. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • Cesium-131 has been in use for the treatment of prostate cancer with very successful results. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • The samples are then analyzed for cesium isotopes, whose signature allows scientists to identify radionuclides released from Fukushima. (nsf.gov)
  • According to Buesseler, based on those models, initial traces of radioactive isotopes from Fukushima should be detectable along the Pacific coast of the United States in April. (barbrastreisand.com)
  • The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has detected the presence of Cesium-134 off of the coast of California, of which can only have come from the Fukushima site in Japan, due to it's half-life of only two years. (unknowncountry.com)
  • Ocean simulations showed that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 could begin flowing into U.S. coastal waters starting in early 2014 and peak in 2016. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Instead, a large proportion of the cesium in wild boar meat tracks back to nuclear weapons testing - up to 68 per cent in some samples. (euronews.com)
  • Caesium-135 is one of the seven long-lived fission products and the only alkaline one. (wikipedia.org)
  • In most types of nuclear reprocessing, it stays with the medium-lived fission products (including 137 Cs which can only be separated from Cs-135 via isotope separation) rather than with other long-lived fission products. (wikipedia.org)
  • Different primary-ion sources (cesium and oxygen) allow the choice of conditions for the best analytical sensitivity across the periodic table, down to parts per billion for many elements. (nrel.gov)
  • Mercury Isotopes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (harvard.edu)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mercury Isotopes" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Mercury Isotopes" was a major or minor topic of these publication. (harvard.edu)
  • Below are the most recent publications written about "Mercury Isotopes" by people in Profiles. (harvard.edu)
  • Elevated Mercury Concentrations and Isotope Signatures (N, C, Hg) in Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) from the Galápagos Marine Reserve and Waters off Ecuador. (harvard.edu)
  • Mercury isotope study of sources and exposure pathways of methylmercury in estuarine food webs in the Northeastern U.S. Environ Sci Technol. (harvard.edu)
  • Cesium, gallium , and mercury are the only three metals that are liquid at room temperature. (lanl.gov)
  • The oscillation frequency of the cesium atom is incredibly high, that is what scientists seeking for a high frequency allows time measurement with high accuracy. (astronoo.com)
  • The nausea occurs because cesium is a highly alkaline mineral and reacts with anything acidic. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Cesium reacts explosively with cold water, and reacts with ice at temperatures above -116C. (lanl.gov)
  • Since 1967, the official definition of a second is: The second, symbol s, is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1. (wikipedia.org)
  • Caesium-137 is a radioactive isotope - or charged atom - that is a byproduct of a nuclear chain reaction. (barentsobserver.com)
  • So we used the natural frequency of certain atoms and in particular the isotope cesium-133 atom whose oscillations emit pulses of light. (astronoo.com)
  • This is the cesium atom which currently guarantees the correctness of the time on our planet. (astronoo.com)
  • If we bombards with energy the cesium atom, using a laser, it vibrates emitting light pulses at a frequency of 9,192,631,770 Hz. (astronoo.com)
  • Today the definition of the second, made ​​by the International System of Units is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium atom 133. (astronoo.com)
  • The macroscopic oscillator frequency is adjusted so as to remain permanently slaved around the maximum of the atomic transition, it is the response of the cesium atom to the excitement. (astronoo.com)
  • Everything happens in a heated chamber containing cesium is in this place that we will create a stream of atoms. (astronoo.com)
  • Compared to other common radioactive seeds, Cesium-131 has a strong energy level. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • And in 1986, one particular nuclear reactor emitted a whole bunch of cesium-137 into the atmosphere. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Cesium is a silvery white, soft, ductile metal with only one oxidation state (+1). (cdc.gov)
  • Cesium is a silvery, soft metal that is found in nature. (diethealthclub.com)
  • Caesium-134 undergoes beta decay (β−), producing 134Ba directly and emitting on average 2.23 gamma ray photons (mean energy 0.698 MeV). (wikipedia.org)
  • Both isotopes decay into non-radioactive elements. (cdc.gov)
  • The manufacturer of Cesium-131 internal radiation therapy seeds, IsoRay, Inc. has recently announced a multi-institutional study of the isotope for its effectiveness to treat Non Small Cell Lung Cancers (NSCLC). (healthguideinfo.com)
  • The manufacturer IsoRay expects that Cesium-131 will be available for wide usage to treat a number of cancers in the coming years. (healthguideinfo.com)
  • Cesium salts and most cesium compounds are generally very water soluble, with the exception of cesium alkyl and aryl compounds, which have low water solubility. (cdc.gov)
  • nota: Cesium is an alkali metal, its name "caesius" means "blue sky" in Latin. (astronoo.com)
  • The capsule contains a radioactive isotope of cesium called cesium-137. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The individuals who discovered the cesium-137 capsule were illiterate and unfamiliar with the radiation trefoil logo, which was first used in 1946 in California, United States of America. (bvsalud.org)
  • Caesium-134 has a half-life of 2.0652 years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Caesium-135 is a mildly radioactive isotope of caesium with a half-life of 2.3 million years. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, they do not only release cesium-137, but also cesium-135, a cesium isotope with a much longer half-life. (euronews.com)
  • Another isotope, cesium-137, decays very slowly with a half-life of 30 years. (barbrastreisand.com)
  • One is that you are unable to slaughter [the reindeer] now - you have to wait until November because the caesium has a half-life in the animal. (barentsobserver.com)
  • The caesium-137 particles are set to reach their "half-life" expectancy in 2016 - a milestone that renders them half as radioactive as when they first landed in 1986 - but "it will take a very long time before the last part of it goes," says Eikelmann. (barentsobserver.com)
  • Monitors along the Pacific U.S. coast have yet to detect any traces of cesium-134, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), speaking on a panel at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences. (barbrastreisand.com)
  • Though traces of cesium-137 have been detected in the world's oceans, their source may be attributed to previous nuclear-weapons tests. (barbrastreisand.com)
  • Nonetheless, traces of the radioactive isotopes pop up every summer in the plant life - particularly the gypsy mushroom, a delicacy for both humans and reindeer. (barentsobserver.com)
  • MANAGEMENT OF CESIUM-137 EXPOSURE IN 2023: Cesium-137 enters the body through ingestion or inhalation. (bvsalud.org)
  • One of the world's richest sources of cesium is located at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. (lanl.gov)
  • For years, researchers didn't know why Bavarian feral pigs contained serious levels of radioactive isotopes. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The stomach and tissue samples of the boars that researchers tested still continued to exhibit unsafe levels of cesium isotopes. (discovermagazine.com)
  • It turns out that feral pigs go hog-wild for a certain type of truffle - they rely on it as a major food source at certain times of the year - and that truffle tends to absorb high levels of radioactive cesium. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Smith and his colleagues tracked rising levels of cesium-134 at several ocean monitoring stations west of Vancouver in the North Pacific beginning in 2011. (barbrastreisand.com)
  • A " State of the Environment " report, released by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority this week, found elevated caesium-137 levels in wild reindeer living in the Våga reinlag AS in central Jotunheimen National Park. (barentsobserver.com)
  • Cesium is also found as a contaminant in places that process used nuclear fuel as well as in nuclear reactors. (diethealthclub.com)
  • WHOI's recent readings for the longer-lived Cesium-137 isotope have been found to be 6.9 Bq per cubic meter. (unknowncountry.com)
  • Prussian blue binds to cesium, thereby facilitating its elimination from the body. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cesium is used in atomic clocks, which are accurate to 5 s in 300 years. (lanl.gov)
  • Some doctors may advise taking such cesium supplements for the treatment of cancer but studies are yet to show that they are effective in treating the disease. (diethealthclub.com)
  • The SI base unit of time, the second, is defined by a specific caesium-133 transition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Potassium orotates can prevent the accumulation of Cesium-137. (lewrockwell.com)
  • In fact, getting enough potassium from food such as bananas is a good first step at preventing radioactive cesium 137 retention. (lewrockwell.com)
  • In of ion competition experiments, indicating that potassium, rubid- particular, the cryogenic temperatures used in all recent crys- ium, and cesium ions bind to the minor groove with similarly weak tallographic work may drastically shift the enthalpy-entropy affinity as sodium ions, whereas ammonium ion binding is some- balance of ion-water substitution. (lu.se)
  • Cesium, an alkali metal, occurs in lepidolite, pollucte (a hydrated silicate of aluminum and cesium), and in other sources. (lanl.gov)
  • Information regarding the physical and chemical properties of cesium is located in Table 4-2. (cdc.gov)
  • This is possible because different sources of radioactive isotopes have different physical fingerprints," explains Dr Bin Feng, who conducts his research at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at Leibniz Universität Hannover and the TRIGA Center Atominstitut at TU Wien. (euronews.com)
  • Both the tailing impoundment sites and so-called 'orphan' sources, which could contain reactor-produced isotopes,[1] might present security risks if left unmonitored. (nti.org)
  • Cesium was discovered spectroscopically in 1860 by Bunsen and Kirchhoff in mineral water from Durkheim. (lanl.gov)