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NYTimes: “Radioactive materials like cesium are brought back to the surface soil each year by plant growth and pollination”

Published: July 12th, 2012 at 4:03 pm ET
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Fukushima vs. Chernobyl: How Have Animals Fared?
New York Times
By RACHEL NUWER
July 12, 2012, 9:58 am

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Contaminated areas of Chernobyl and Fukushima are unlikely to be hospitable habitats for years to come. In Chernobyl, for example, the amount of americium-241, a highly radiotoxic isotope if ingested, is actually increasing as its parent nuclide, plutonium, decays. Radioactive materials like cesium are brought back to the surface soil each year by plant growth and pollination.

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