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 have an enhanced understanding of a common freshwater alga and its remarkable ability to remove strontium from water. Insight into this mechanism ultimately could help scientists design ...

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 ...

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 ...