[ RadSafe ] Smithsonian - Low levels of radioactive cesium produced insect deformities

[Chris Alston]

Andy, Brad, Brian et al.

I doubt that the chemical form would have been the chloride, since
these were emissions from reactors that crashed, not the contents of
sources from irradiators.   But, really, what do I know about reactor
chemistry?

Then, how about they run the experiments with K-40, as a suitable
chemical species and at suitable concentrations?

Cheers
cja

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From: Rees, Brian G <brees at lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Smithsonian - Low levels of radioactive
cesium produced insect deformities at Fukushima
To: "radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu" <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Since Cs is typically CsCl, did they feed a population either a
similar level of that or another salt?