Sediment sleuthing: Radioactive medicine being tracked through rivers
Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
A University of Delaware oceanographer has stumbled upon an unusual aid for studying local waterways: radioactive iodine. Trace amounts of the contaminant, which is used in medical treatments, are entering waterways via wastewater treatment systems and providing a new way to track where and how substances travel through rivers to the ocean.
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