Sentences with 'caesium'
Example sentences and phrases with the word caesium and other words derived from it.
• « The macabre statistics do not end there. In that area of Sweden, caesium-137 levels have reached 137,000 Becquerel (bq) per square metre. This means that in the days immediately following the Chernobyl disaster, 30 times more radioactive material has fallen there than was developed in forty years of nuclear testing. »
• « Zirconium "lives" for five million years by contaminating radioactivity, caesium-135 for three million years and technetium-999 for five hundred thousand. These by-products make up 15 per cent of nuclear power plant waste. But more rudimentary industries are no less dangerous. »