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Naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) and technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) consist of materials, usually industrial wastes or by-products enriched with radioactive elements found in the environment, such as uranium, thorium and potassium and any of their decay products, such as radium and radon. [1]
The following are among the principal radioactive materials known to emit alpha particles. 209 Bi , 211 Bi , 212 Bi , 213 Bi 210 Po , 211 Po , 212 Po , 214 Po , 215 Po , 216 Po , 218 Po
This is a list of radioactive nuclides (sometimes also called isotopes), ordered by half-life from shortest to longest, in seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. Current methods make it difficult to measure half-lives between approximately 10 −19 and 10 −10 seconds.
Fission product yields by mass for thermal neutron fission of U-235 and Pu-239 (the two typical of current nuclear power reactors) and U-233 (used in the thorium cycle). This page discusses each of the main elements in the mixture of fission products produced by nuclear fission of the common nuclear fuels uranium and plutonium.
A paper has been written on the radioactivity in oysters found in the Irish Sea, these were found by gamma spectroscopy to contain 141 Ce, 144 Ce, 103 Ru, 106 Ru, 137 Cs, 95 Zr and 95 Nb. [citation needed] In addition, a zinc activation product (65 Zn) was found, this is thought to be due to the corrosion of magnox fuel cladding in cooling ...
Radioactive elements, except tritium and carbon-14, have been mostly filtered from the water that is being released into the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive elements, except tritium and carbon-14, have ...
Radium compounds are compounds containing the element radium (Ra). Due to radium's radioactivity, not many compounds have been well characterized. Solid radium compounds are white as radium ions provide no specific coloring, but they gradually turn yellow and then dark over time due to self-radiolysis from radium's alpha decay. [1]
Here’s what researchers found, plus how to protect yourself, according to a toxicologist. Meet the experts : Jamie Alan, PhD , is an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at ...