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Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30 years, which means it could pose a risk to the population for decades to come, if not found. Pennapa, from the Office of Atoms for Peace, urged the public ...
Western Australian Department Of Fire And Emergency Services The tiny capsule filled with Caesium-137, at 8 millimeters tall and 6 millimeters in diameter, was found on the roadside of a remote ...
The 12-inch-long cylinder containing the radioactive material Caesium-137 was reported missing on March 10 from a piece of machinery at a steam power plant in Prachinburi province, 102 miles east ...
Letter Published: 05 March 1960 Accumulation of Cæsium-137 by Plants grown in Simulated Pond, Wet Meadow and Irrigated Field Environments R. C. PENDLETON & R. L. UHLER Nature 185, 707–708 (1960 ...
CAESIUM-137, a fission product with a long half-life, is liable to be transmitted through the food chain to man when the environment is contaminated by radioactive fall-out.
Officials have been checking steel factories in the province, 150km east of Bangkok, since a cylinder of caesium-137 was discovered missing from a coal-fired power plant in Sri Maha Pho district ...
The caesium-137 device was reportedly used in ash measurement at the coal-fired plant. "Failure to closely monitor the radioactive component is a grave mistake," they said.
This tiny Cesium-137 source is far less radioactive than the Cobalt-60 sources this message usually applies to. However, it’s still radioactive enough that you don’t want to be anywhere near it.
The tiny capsule filled with Caesium-137, at 8 millimeters tall and 6 millimeters in diameter, was found on the roadside of a remote highway Wednesday afternoon, six days after it went missing in ...
Caesium-137 is a human-made fission project often used in radiological laboratories as well as in industrial settings, such as within gauges in mining operations, Angela Di Fulvio, an assistant ...