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 ...

DETAILED knowledge of the behaviour of strontium-90 in soil is of particular importance in assessing the long-term consequences of its deposition on agricultural land. Experiments have been carried ...

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) ...

PREVIOUS work on strontium estimation in biological material has involved the use of optical emission spectroscopy 1 and name spectrophotometry 2, both of which suffer from the disadvantage that the ...

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 ...