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Waste plumes of
strontium-90 and tritium are discharging into Perch Lake and the Ottawa River.
Radiotherapy is rarely used for non-resectable cases, including plesiotherapy with
strontium-90 for a lingual plasmacytoma in a dog (WARE & GIEGER, 2011; VAIL, 2013).
It is a kind of a small nuclear reactor that runs on a material called
strontium-90, which can generate a high level of energy over many years.
In 1972, about 19,000 gallons (71,920 liters) of highly radioactive sodium bearing waste that involved the tritium,
strontium-90, cesium-137 and plutonium-238 spilled during a failed underground transfer at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center's tank farm.
There, she conducted groundbreaking research on
strontium-90, a radioactive substance present in fallout from nuclear weapons testing and which had been found in baby teeth.
According to scientific tests conducted on behalf of the environmental campaigning group, overall contamination from key isotopes such as caesium-137 and
strontium-90 has fallen somewhat, but lingers, especially in places such as forests.
Seager's book includes chapters on Carson's life as a scientist and writer of nature, the post World War II scares such as
Strontium-90 and Thalidomide that made her claims about DDT so credible, the public health issues she explores, the desirability of biological controls, and the recent politicised attacks on Carson and Silent Spring.
Rainwater within that perimeter had up to 8,300 becquerels per liter of beta particle-emitting radioactive substances, such as
strontium-90.
"In the 1950s and the early '60s, when atmospheric nuclear testing was resulting in
Strontium-90 being found in babies' teeth and mothers' milk, people were outraged that they should be subjected to this kind of stuff.