The groundwater contains radioactive
strontium 90, which can cause bone cancer and leukemia.
Officials in Poland seized a batch of counterfeit cigarettes found to contain
strontium 90.
Louis physicians, who measured levels of the radioactive isotope
Strontium 90 in young children's baby teeth.
The isotope
Strontium 90, released into the atmosphere by the A-bombs, was believed to have changed the genes of the children in the womb in some positive way, creating a superior version of the human genome.
The leaked water contains 230 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances, consisting mainly of cancer-causing
strontium 90, according to TEPCO.
The legal limit for releasing
strontium 90, which has a half life of around 29 years, into the sea is 30 becquerels per litre.
TEPCO detected 200,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances including
strontium 90.
If we could see radioactivity, we'd think a lot of places were "permanently scarred" - for while the
strontium 90 mentioned in that report has a half-life of a mere 29 years, plutonium 239's half-life is 24,000 years and those of iodine 129 and uranium 235 are well into the millions of years.
| SIR - Tepco, the owner of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors, said last week that it had discovered high levels of radioactive
strontium 90 and tritium in a well located just 27 metres from the Pacific Ocean.
When they were putting breakfast on the table, they saw not only Wheaties and milk, but also
strontium 90 and iodine 131 ..." The heroic Mrs.
The random generator was made up of a radioactive source (
strontium 90), a Geiger counter, and a four-step electronic switch controlling four lamps.
A similar situation exists with radioactive
Strontium 90, which concentrates itself in bones causing cancers there.