Radioactive cesium fallout on Tokyo from Fukushima concentrated in glass microparticles
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 08:01
in Physics & Chemistry
New research shows that most of the radioactive fallout which landed on downtown Tokyo a few days after the Fukushima accident was concentrated and deposited in non-soluble glass microparticles, as a type of ‘glassy soot’. This meant that most of the radioactive material was not dissolved in rain and running water, and probably stayed in […]