[UPDATED 4/28: with information from FDA. Altered sentences in italics.] A radioactive isotope of strontium has been detected in American milk for the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster—in a ...

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Just how dangerous to the human race is the radioactive fallout from nuclear-weapons tests? The subject is enormously complex, and to understand all aspects of it requires expert knowledge of many ...

Researchers in Spain have studied the spread of radioactive strontium in the coastal waters of eastern Japan during the three months following the Fukushima nuclear accident, which happened in March ...

Talk about the perils of atomic radiation has swelled in volume and intensity ever since the U.S. and Russia fired their much-publicized H-bombs in 1954. From public forums and presses all over the ...

A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope Strontium-90 on the development site of the old Hunters Point ...

For 6 years human bones, mostly femora, have been analyzed for strontium-90 by radiochemical methods and for natural strontium spectrographically. The mean concentrations relative to calcium (pc/g Ca ...

Strontium-90 concentrations in deciduous (baby) teeth of 515 children born mainly after the end of worldwide atmospheric nuclear bomb tests in 1980 are found to equal the concentrations in children ...

WEANLING rabbits given single injections of 500–1,000 µc. strontium-90 per kgm. showed a high frequency of tumours of the jaw 1, and preliminary histological studies suggest that they arose in close ...

How many nuclear weapons can be detonated in support of weapons development or during a war before imperiling humans from radioactive fallout? That’s the question the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ...