Just how dangerous to the human race is the radioactive fallout from nuclear-weapons tests? The subject is enormously complex, and to understand all aspects of it requires expert knowledge of many ...

While natural strontium is harmless, one of its isotopes, Sr-90, carries a more sinister reputation: It is a dangerous byproduct of nuclear fallout. Highly reactive.

A radioactive isotope of strontium has been detected in American milk for the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster—in a sample from Hilo, Hawaii—the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Talk about the perils of atomic radiation has swelled in volume and intensity ever since the U.S. and Russia fired their much-publicized H-bombs in 1954. From public forums and presses all over ...

Strontium-90 may have also been left from when crews sandblasted ships returning from Operation Crossroads, post-World War II atomic bomb testing in the Pacific. Still, ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- When a fish taken from the Connecticut River recently tested positive for radioactive strontium-90, suspicion focused on the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as the likely ...

Lochbaum concludes that, despite what Irwin and Smith say, Vermont Yankee cannot be ruled out as the source of radioactive contamination of fish in the Connecticut River.

90 Sr and 89 Sr in seawater off Japan as a consequence of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident. Biogeosciences Discussions , 2013; 10 (2): 2039 DOI: 10.5194/bgd-10-2039-2013 Cite This Page : ...

Strontium-90, a byproduct of nuclear fission that has been linked to cancer and leukemia, was confirmed at the Vernon nuclear plant in a report received by plant owners Monday.

Separately, a soil sample in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, was found this week to contain strontium-90, an isotope that can accumulate in bones and cause cancer.It was the first time that ...