A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope Strontium-90 on the development site of the old Hunters Point ...

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 source ...

Researchers in Spain have studied the spread of radioactive strontium in the coastal waters of eastern Japan during the three months following the Fukushima nuclear accident, which happened in March ...

Bone ash samples of the osseous shell of 73 individuals representing 12 species of testudinid and chelydrid turtles collected in southeastern USA (Alabama, Georgia and Florida) were assayed for 90 Sr.

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 the ...

For 6 years human bones, mostly femora, have been analyzed for strontium-90 by radiochemical methods and for natural strontium spectrographically. The mean concentrations relative to calcium (pc/g Ca ...

Vose and Koontz 1 have lately compared the absorption of strontium-90 and calcium by six species of clover and six species of grass grown in pots containing three contrasting soil types. Their results ...

THE average daily dietary intake of strontium-90 in Britain during 1958 has been assessed as about 6 µµc. per gm. calcium 1. It is well known that discrimination against strontium relative to calcium ...

Zeno Power says it is “the first commercially built radioisotope heater unit ever.” Credit: Zeno Power Zeno Power has built and demonstrated a shielded Strontium 90 heat source, technology that could ...

How many nuclear weapons can be detonated in support of weapons development or during a war before imperiling humans from radioactive fallout? That’s the question the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ...