Strontium-90 (90 Sr ) is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission, with a half-life of 28.8 years. It undergoes β− decay into yttrium-90...

Strontium is a chemical element; it has symbol Sr and atomic number 38. An alkaline earth metal, strontium is a soft silver-white yellowish metallic element...

Strontium 90 were a short-lived British band active in 1977 whose members were Mike Howlett (bass, vocals) from the band Gong, Sting (vocals, guitar, bass)...

Strontium 90: Police Academy is the only album by Strontium 90, released by Mike Howlett in 1997. This album consists of live tracks recorded at Gong's...

The strontium unit is a unit used to measure the amount of radioactivity from strontium-90, a radionuclide found in nuclear fallout, in a subject's body...

musician Mike Howlett invited Sting to join him in the band project Strontium 90. The drummer Howlett had in mind, Chris Cutler, was unavailable, so Sting...

The alkaline earth metal strontium (38Sr) has four stable, naturally occurring isotopes: 84Sr (0.56%), 86Sr (9.86%), 87Sr (7.0%) and 88Sr (82.58%). Its...

Strontium titanate is an oxide of strontium and titanium with the chemical formula SrTiO3. At room temperature, it is a centrosymmetric paraelectric material...

States Atomic Energy Commission surmised that the radioactive isotope strontium-90 (Sr-90) presented the greatest hazard to life globally, which resulted in...

half-lives, and therefore vary in radioactivity. For instance, strontium-89 and strontium-90 are produced in similar quantities in fission, and each nucleus...

In addition to polluting the soil, Strontium-90 can also pollute water, such as oceans and rivers. Strontium-90 is highly dangerous for marine life....

Soviet-era lighthouses and beacons. The Beta-M contains a core made up of strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28.79 years. The service life of these generators...

In early 1957, there had been a leak of radioactive material in which strontium-90 was released into the environment. Like the later fire, this incident...

importance, and their properties. Strontium-90 is a commonly used beta emitter used in industrial sources. It decays to yttrium-90, which is itself a beta emitter...

reactors. As the strontium-90 decays, chemical high-purity separation is used to isolate the yttrium-90 before precipitation. Yttrium-90 is also directly...

cross section, Strontium-90 is poorly suited for thermal neutron induced nuclear transmutation as a way of disposing of it. Strontium-90 has been used...

the U.S. government. But scientists found dangerously high levels of strontium-90 in well water in May 1978, and the residents' bodies were carrying abnormally...

the spent fuel pool) elements, medium lived fission products such as strontium-90 and caesium-137 and finally seven long-lived fission products with half...

Pop Vocal Performance. In 1989, ...Nothing Like the Sun was ranked number 90 and his Police album Synchronicity was ranked number 17 on Rolling Stone's...

With the conclusion from Project GABRIEL that radioactive isotope Strontium-90 (Sr-90) represented the most serious threat to human health from nuclear...

periodic table. They are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra). The elements have very similar properties:...

radar systems, predominantly located in Alaska, use RTGs. The units use strontium-90, and a larger number of such units have been deployed both on the ground...

Summers was invited by ex-Gong bassist Mike Howlett to join his band Strontium 90, but was soon coaxed away by future Police bandmates Sting and Stewart...

that the levels of global strontium-90 or fallout in general, were life-threatening, primarily because "50 times the strontium-90 from before nuclear testing"...

to: Strontium Technology, a Singaporean manufacturing company Strontium unit, a unit used to measure the amount of radioactivity from strontium-90 STRONTIUM...

Strontium aluminate is an aluminate compound with the chemical formula SrAl2O4 (sometimes written as SrO·Al2O3). It is a pale yellow, monoclinic crystalline...

Ghost in the Machine (1981) Synchronicity (1983) 1977: Strontium 90: Police Academy by Strontium 90 1982: Acting Very Strange by Mike Rutherford 1986: So...

fission products (radioactive isotopes such as caesium-137, iodine-131, strontium-90, and other radionuclides) into the air. The residents of the surrounding...

tissue. : 114  However, unlike group 2 radionuclides like radium and strontium-90, caesium does not bioaccumulate and is excreted relatively quickly. The...

against highly energetic cosmic rays at high altitudes. The amounts of strontium-90 released from nuclear power plants under normal operations is so low...