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Keeping up with the radioxenons
After the first of two nuclear weapon tests by North Korea, in 2006, a monitoring station in Yellowknife, Canada, caught a whiff of xenon-133, a radioactive isotope of xenon, in the atmosphere. It had been released by the blast and had traveled more than … Continue reading
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Tagged Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, medical diagnostics, molybdenum-99, radioactive tracers, radionuclides, technetium-99, xenon-133, xenon-135
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