News tagged with radioactive metal

A capsule for removing radioactive contamination from milk, fruit juices, other beverages

Amid concerns about possible terrorist attacks with nuclear materials, and fresh memories of environmental contamination from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, scientists today described ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Russia's Mars probe will crash to Earth in January

A Russian spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars and stuck in Earth's orbit will come crashing back next month, but its toxic fuel and radioactive material on board will pose no danger of contamination, the Russian ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 44

New material shows promise for trapping pollutants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water softening techniques are very effective for removing minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which occur as positively-charged ions in "hard" water. But many heavy metals and other inorganic ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plutonium tricks cells by 'pretending' to be iron

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plutonium gets taken up by our cells much as iron does, even though there's far less of it to go around.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fukushima: Sea contamination likely to be local - scientists

Radioactive contamination of the sea from Fukushima is likely to be only a local problem, but could lead to an exclusion zone if there is a major release of long-term pollutants, scientists say.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researcher uses bacteria to make radioactive metals inert

The Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn't produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area. Cleaning the region takes an expensive process that is only done in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16