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vavooom | 7 months ago

"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to transmute the rest into shorter-lived isotopes"

From Wikipedia, it looks like Strontium-90 can be used in "treatment of bone cancer, and to treat coronary restenosis via vascular brachytherapy". Pretty cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90

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SoftTalker|7 months ago

Strontium is taken up by the body like Calcium, as it's in the same group in the periodic table.

rbanffy|7 months ago

I don’t think anyone is considering its ingestion. At least I hope not, but these are very strange times.