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Tsukuba, Japan, Feb 7, 2013 - (ACN Newswire) - Radioactive leaks, such as at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, contaminate the local environment. Contamination of soil and water by the radioactive form of caesium is a major problem, since it persists for a long time; levels of radioactivity reduce by half only every 30 years. Effective detection and removal of radiocaesium would accelerate recovery of the environment.Current detection methods can only localise contamination on a...

Alpha Galileo Foundation PTB measures the influence of the ambient temperature on strontium atoms for the first time – measurement uncertainty reduced by one order of magnitude An optical clock with neutral strontium atoms is considered one of the top candidates for the definition of a "new" second. The probabilities have increased considerably, since its frequency will now be determined more accurately (probably by an order of magnitude). Scientists of the Physikalisch-Technische...

Latest Smart Phone and Tablet Accessories at Booth 224 Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) August 16, 2012 Cesium Telecom is set to unveil a major presence at the upcoming 2012 Canadian Wireless Trade Show, September 12th and 13th at the Direct Energy Center in Toronto, Canada.  Cesium will be spotlighting their OEM accessories for the next generation of smart phones along with an extensive selection for popular products including notebooks, iPads and other handheld gear. Since its inception in...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com The first seafood caught off the Japanese coast of Fukushima since last year’s nuclear meltdown went on sale Monday — a sign the million-dollar fishing economy is on the mend. The first day’s offerings were limited to the only commercial sea creatures that have consistently tested negative for radioactive cesium: octopus and whelk, a type of marine snail. Japanese fishmongers are hoping sea bass and flounder soon follow, but are aware that these...

A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in seawater, which was pumped in to cool the plant's towers. "It's the kind of thing that sends a chill," said Mark Rigali, manager of the geochemistry group at Sandia. "We've...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- International Lithium Corp. ("ILC" or the "Company") (TSXV: ILC) is pleased to announce the results from the Company's recent drill program on the lithium and rare metals pegmatite field spanning the Company's contiguous Mavis Lake and Fairservice claim blocks near Dryden Ontario. http://www.pitchengine.com/Brand/PreviewPitch?brandid=e9405d8c-816e-4c27-b7ee-c08bc7e5e88b&pitchid=99245f9f-c62d-433d-808f-82328adce9e1 Key...

The March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radioactivity releases from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants resulted in the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history. In a special session on Tuesday, Feb. 21, during the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, researchers will present early results from several field and modeling studies examining the fate of more than a dozen radioactive isotopes in the air, water, and organisms impacted by...

Multiple radioactive "hot spots" in and around Tokyo -- some 125 miles from a nuclear facility damaged by a March earthquake -- have been detected by citizens using radiation-detection gear, various media outlets reported late last week. According to Chico Harlan of the Washington Post, residents reported on Thursday that they had discovered two areas with elevated radiation levels, some of which were higher than those within the 12-mile evacuation zone. One of those two readings could...

  Researchers have found that an atomic clock at the U.K.'s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has the best long-term accuracy of any other clock in the world. Studies of the clock's accuracy show it is nearly twice as accurate as previously thought. The clock would lose or gain less than a second in about 138 million years. The NPL's CsF2 clock is a "caesium foundation" atomic clock, in which the "ticking" is provided by the measurement of the energy required to change a...

Japan's government plans to suspend all cattle shipments from Fukushima after the country's second-biggest retailer reported Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, Reuters reports. The country, which is still suffering the after-effects of the March earthquake and tsunami that devastated the region, has already dealt with a huge amount of contamination from products such as tea, milk, seafood and water; and the latest issue only adds to an already fueled...