Search results for strontium 90
Compound removes radioactive material from power plant waste
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Strontium 90 is a common radioactive by-product of fission in nuclear power plants. When extracted from the reactor along with other isotopes, a mixture is created made up of the radioactive material and inert ions like sodium ...
New Material Can Find a Needle in a Nuclear Waste Haystack
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Nuclear power has advantages, but, if this method of making power is to be viable long term, discovering new solutions to radioactive waste disposal and other problems are critical. Otherwise nuclear power ...
Study of baby teeth yields new findings on nuclear fallout
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Joan Ketterer still recalls the button her son Edward got for donating his baby teeth to what was then a ground-breaking study looking at the effect of nuclear fallout on children born in the St. Louis-area in the 1960s.
Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later ...
First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium
Nov 09, 2009 |
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In an international first, scientists from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, Austria) produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of the alkaline-earth element strontium, thus narrowly ...
Optical Atomic Clock: A long look at the captured atoms
Feb 05, 2008 |
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Optical clocks might become the atomic clocks of the future. Their "pendulum", i.e. the regular oscillation process which each clock needs, is an oscillation in the range of the visible light. As its frequency is higher than ...
Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.
Scientists Show Strontium's Swimming Skills
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, a trio from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Louisiana Tech University showed that strontium ions congregate on water's surface. Their computer simulation and careful calculations ...
Optical atomic clock becomes portable
Sep 03, 2009 |
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You imagine a clock to be different -- yet the optical table with its many complicated set-ups really is one. Optical clocks like the strontium clock in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig ...
World's earliest nuclear family found
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 17, 2008 |
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The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic ...
Rice ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie.
Study Finds New Properties in Non-Magnetic Materials
Jun 11, 2008 |
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A team of Penn State researchers has shown for the first time that the entire class of non-magnetic materials, such as those used in some computer components, could have considerably more uses than scientists ...
Collaboration helps make JILA strontium atomic clock 'best in class'
Feb 14, 2008 |
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A next-generation atomic clock that tops previous records for accuracy in clocks based on neutral atoms has been demonstrated by physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the Commerce Department's National ...
Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...
Teeth of Columbus' crew flesh out tale of new world discovery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 19, 2009 |
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The adage that dead men tell no tales has long been disproved by archaeology.
