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Strontium 90 for instance acts very much like calcium.
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From a public health perspective, the most important isotopes are short-lived isotopes of iodine (like Iodine-131), Cesium-137, Strontium-90, and possibly Plutonium-239.
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It uses two ion exchange processes to remove the radioactive elements Cesium-134 (Cs-134), Cesium-137 (Cs-137) and Strontium-90 (Sr-90) from the seawater.
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Some end up in the milk supply (Strontium-90) and will behave as calcium, collecting in your bones and contributing to bone cancer and leukemia.
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IAEA-led team was fanning out in western Georgia in search of the remaining two of a batch of eight abandoned devices containing strontium-90, another radioactive element, which had been used in generators for communication stations.
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Cancer incidence in children under age ten living near New York and New Jersey nuclear plants increased 4-5 years after increases in average Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and declined 4-5 years after Sr-90 averages dropped.
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