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FACT SHEET EPA FACTS ABOUT CESIUM
Cesium-137 is therefore a common radionuclide produced when nuclear fission, or splitting, of uranium and plutonium occurs in a reactor or atomic bomb What are the uses of cesium-137? Cesium-137 and its decay product, barium-137m, are used for sterilization activities for food products, including wheat, spices, flour, and potato...
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Effects of Caesium
Health Effects of Caesium-137 Like all radionuclides, exposure to radiation from cesium-137 results in increased risk of cancer Everyone is exposed to very small amounts of cesium-137 in soil and water as a result of atmospheric fallout Exposure to waste materials, from contaminated sites, or from nuclear accidents can result in cancer risks ....
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RADIOISOTOPES IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER
and cesium-137 Radiation treatment of malignant growths is not, of course, a novel procedure both radium im 173 plants and X-rays generated at medium voltages up to 250 kV have been used all over the world for many years However, large scale production of radio 173 isotopes in atomic reactors has made radiotherapy...
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Cäsium 137 Cs 137
Cäsium 137 hat mit 30,19 Jahren, bezogen auf eine menschliche Lebensspanne, eine lange Halbwertzeit, während sich beispielsweise die Aktivität von Jod-131 innerhalb von 8 Tagen durch radioaktiven Zerfall halbiert Aus strahlenbiologischer Sicht ist au 223 er Cs-137 auch Cäsium-134, von allerdings geringerer Bedeutung...
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Cesium 137 radiocesium has a half
Cesium-137 is a gamma emitter with a half-life of 3008 years Cesium is a soft, gold-colored metal with a melting point of 285 176 C It has atomic number 55 and a relative atomic mass of 1329There are 35 known isotopes of the element cesium Cesium-114 to Cesium-148 Seelmann-Eggebert et al 1981...
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EPA Facts about Cesium
What are the uses of cesium-137? Cesium-137 and its decay product, barium-137m, are used in food sterilization, including wheat, spices, flour, and potato Cesium-137 is used in a wide variety of industrial instruments, such as level and thickness gauges and moisture density gaug Cesium-137 is also commonly used in hospitals for diagnosis ....
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Japan urged to revoke decision to dump nuclear wastewater ,
15-12-2021 0183 32 Cesium-137 also arrived in the Arctic Ocean, according to the researcher A small amount of the radiocesium was detected and Yuichiro speculated that it had spread to the center of the Arctic Ocean...
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CDC Radiation Emergencies Cesium
04-04-2018 0183 32 Cesium-137 Cs-137 Related Pag Radioisotope Brief Toxicology FAQs Frequently asked questions from the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry ATSDR The Basics external icon Questions answers from the Environmental Protection Agency EPA Related Resourc Sheltering in Place During a Radiation Emergency...
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Radioprotective Chelator Apple Pectin Reduces Caesium
03-04-2014 0183 32 Apple pectin, for example, along with other fruits that contain this soluble fiber and polysaccharride carbohydrates are great radioprotective agents Yuri Bandazhevsky , the once director of the Medical Institute of Gomel in Belarus, documented the chronic incorporation of caesium 137 Cs-137 in the organs of children living in contaminated areas after the ,...
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Persistence and Decontamination of Radioactive Cesium
Cesium-137 in a Model Drinking Water System by Jeffrey Szabo US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development Homeland Security Research Program Cincinnati, OH 45268 Ryan James Battelle Columbus, OH 43201...
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Radioactive Cesium measured up north could origin from ,
21-04-2020 0183 32 Bredo Møller with Norway s nuclear safety agency shows the air filter station where tiny small levels of Cesium-137 were measured this week...
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CDC Radiation Emergencies Radioisotope Brief Cesium
Cs-137 is used in small amounts for calibration of radiation-detection equipment, such as Geiger-Mueller counters In larger amounts, Cs-137 is used in medical radiation therapy devices for treating cancer in industrial gauges that detect the flow of liquid through pipes and in other industrial devices to measure the thickness of materials, such as paper, photographic film, or ,...
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Cesium, Radioactive
/Cesium-137/ IAEA Low-level waste disposal occurs at commercially operated low-level waste disposal facilities that must be licensed by either the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Agreement Stat The facilities must be designed, constructed, and operated to meet safety standards The operator of the facility must also extensively ....
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Supporting Document for Guidance Levels for Radionuclides ,
The five groups are Strontium-90 Iodine-131 Cesium-134 Cesium-137 Ruthenium-103 Ruthenium-106 and Plutonium-238 Plutonium-239 Americium-241 An accident could involve more than one of ....
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Unsolved Mystery of Radioactive Cesium 137 From Houston ,
29-10-2015 0183 32 An on-site investigation by this Agency confirmed the material to be dirt/mud contaminated with Cesium-137 Caesium-137 137 55Cs, Cs-137 , cesium-137, or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium which is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear ,...
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Cesium, Radioactive
Cesium-137 has a radioactive half-life of about 30 years and decays by beta decay either to stable barium-137 or a meta-stable form of barium barium-137m The metastable isotope barium-137m is rapidly converted to stable barium-137 half-life of about 2 minutes accompanied by gamma ray emission whose energy is 0662 MeV...
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German Mushrooms Still Contain Radiation Linked to ,
12-10-2021 0183 32 The agency noted, however, that even if a person ate 200 grams of mushrooms with 3,000 becquerels of cesium-137 per kilogram, this would be about equal to the radiation exposure received during a ....
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German Mushrooms Still Contain Radiation Linked to ,
12-10-2021 0183 32 It urged individuals seeking to limit radiation exposure not to self-pick wild mushrooms in affected areas The agency noted, however, that even if a person ate 200 grams of mushrooms with 3,000....
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The Radiological Accident in Goiânia
The Agency s Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 by the Conference on the Statute of the IAEA held at United Nations Headquarters, New York it entered into force on 29 July 1957 , taking with it a cobalt-60 teletherapy unit and leaving m place a caesium-137 tele-...
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France stops large shipment of radioactive Belarus mushrooms
30-11-2017 0183 32 French consumer protection agency DGCCRF said in a statement that the Belarus mushrooms had cesium 137 levels above legal limits but contained no ruthenium 106 The agency said that following the discovery of the ruthenium, it had started testing samples of food products imported from the regions affected by the radioactive cloud...
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