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 Radioactive elements from nuclear power plants:

Here is a short list of 'some' of the radioactive
elements being released into our environment.

Common radionuclide |  radioactive elements
                                    half - life:

      Beryllium.........................2,700,000 years
      Calcium..............................100,000 years
      Cesium-137...................half life - 30 years
      Cesium-135......................2,000,000 years
      Rubidium.................47,000,000,000 years
      Palladium.........................7,000,000 years
      iodine-129......................17,200,000 years
      plutonium-239........half life -  24,390 years
      strontium-89..............................................53 days
      strontium-90................................28 years
      tin-126................................100,000 years
      uranium-235...........................713,000,000 years
          uranium-238...............4,510,000,000 years

 The above common radionuclide are being released into our air, water, and ground 24 / 7......

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   [For any radioactive substance, the time required for
 one-half of it to disintegrate is called the half-life.
 Some of the radioactive byproducts of nuclear
 uranium fission have very short half-lives, others, very long.
 This concept of "half-life" seems difficult. It is not.
 It's mostly just a convenient way to measure the potential
 for harm and how long it may last.
 If a radioactive substance has a half-life of one day,
 we mean that, in the course of one day, half of that
 substance will decay or disappear.
 In the next day, one half of what is left will disappear,
 in the next day one-half of that will disappear, and so on.
 So a substance with a half-life of one day will be reduced
 in radioactivity 1000 times in 10 days. Hardly enough left
 to do much damage, you might say, within the very short
 time of 10 days.

But if a substance has a half-life of about 30 years
(like cesium-137) it's radioactivity is reduced 1000
times only after 300 years!]

 Above [ section ] taken from the book:
  Poisoned Power  by John W. Gofman

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