![]() | This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
The contaminated city/region is the area around the Mayak plant near Chelyabinsk, where storage tanks holding radioactive waste awaiting processing exploded. U and Pu were released but the majority of the contamination seems to be in the form of fission products rather than actinides (ie does it belong in this category) 136.159.234.163 23:34, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Dear Gang of one,
I think that all four things which you have mentioned are perfectly fitting for this article. I have added some details of the Pu WAK case.
I sure that if you look at the wikipedia pages on nuclear fuel you will get some data about how much Pu/Np/Am was released in the chernobyl fire.
Rocky flats is a good one, plenty of chemistry has been done to probe the chemical nature of the Pu in the soil.
I have no idea about the Siberian contaminated city, what is the name of the place ?
I seem to recall that, in certain parts of the US, the local rocks had high enough thorium content to cause significant amounts of radon to build up in peoples' basements (being an inert gas, it gradually diffused out of the rock once formed as a decay product). If suitable citations can be dug up, this might be worth adding to the "thorium" section of the article. -- Christopher Thomas 20:41, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the biological half life of radium in bone is ? I imagine that it is very long but has anyone got a trustworthy value for it ? Cadmium
I have moved the radium and radon material to its own page, this was done to make the page shorter. Cadmium
Shouldn't this link be in the "See also" section of this article to reduce the clutter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by AghastAmok ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
"Radon and radium are not actinides" Is there any good reason why this page even mentions radon and radium? Most elements are not actinides. Mtpaley ( talk) 00:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC) They're part of decay chains that start with actinides. -- JWB ( talk) 14:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Actinides in the environment. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 06:09, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Actinides in the environment. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 05:36, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Lignite is not a mineral. Please correct it. Eudialytos ( talk) 21:08, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
The formula of plutonyl is not PuO2, but PuO22+. Eudialytos ( talk) 21:11, 18 May 2019 (UTC)