The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) has discovered traces of radioactive Cesium-137 near the Russian ...

The University of Connecticut Storrs campus and UConn Health recently removed a total of four cesium source irradiators from campuses through the Cesium Irradiator Replacement Project (CIRP), an ...

Medical Research Council, The Hazards to Man of Nuclear and Allied Radiations (December, 1960). United Nations. Rep. Sci. Com. Effects of Atomic Radiation. General assembly, seventeenth session ...

In marine environments, a study focused on the relationship between brown seaweeds and cesium-137, a common radionuclide. The research found that the transfer of cesium-137 varied significantly ...

The round silver pellet contains the radioactive isotope Cesium-137, and puts out harmful quantities of both gamma and beta radiation. The pellet was part of a gauge used for measuring the density ...

Radioactive cesium-137 has a long half-life, and a prefectural government official said that this latest case is believed to stem from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Going forward, the ...

The Centers For Disease Control reports Cesium 137 is produced by nuclear fission and in large doses can cause burns, radiation or even death. "He looked at me and said, 'Stop what you're doing ...

The NRA’s study found that the amount of radioactive cesium 137 was estimated at 20-40 petabecquerels between the space between the top and middle layers of the shied plug of the No. 2 reactor.

According to the security agency, the criminals’ goal was to smuggle the radioactive substance abroad ... made attempts to buy 1 kg of caesium-137 for $3.5 million, in circumvention of ...

two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137 ...