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 ...

"Hey, don't look at us" has been Entergy Corporation's response to the discovery of Strontium-90 in fish from the Connecticut River. But the contamination, revealed this week by the Vermont Department ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crops grown near Chernobyl are still contaminated, more than three decades after the worst nuclear disaster in history. Almost half the grain analyzed by scientists in Ivankiv, about 30 miles from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STRONTIUM-90 is one of the long-lived radionuclide constituents of fall-out that can be expected as a contaminant of cereal grains for long periods of time. Much of the strontium-90 content of wheat ...