(Phys.org) —The Fukushima reactor disaster has been the most recent incident to introduce the public to the concept of "cesium 137". In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Korean researchers have now ...

In a recent comprehensive review published in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering on 5 December 2023, researchers from Tsinghua University delve into various innovative methods in the ...

On a sunny lunch hour last June, Tricia Stevens and one of her colleagues from Lush, a cosmetics company with offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, headed to the beach with a collapsible five-gallon ...

Oct. 3 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a surprising new source of radioactive cesium some 60 miles from the Fukushima nuclear plant that was damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A team of ...

Cesium ions, particularly the radioactive isotope 137Cs, pose significant environmental and health risks following nuclear incidents and routine effluent discharge. Their high solubility in water and ...

A leak of contaminated water has been discovered from a pipe connected to a caesium adsorption device at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The leak has been stopped and Tokyo ...

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have for the first time detected the presence of small amounts of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in a ...