Re: the article about the contaminated fawn at Brookhaven lab

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>]

Does this mean that KI does double duty in event of a nuclear accident?



Susan Gawarecki



Stewart Farber wrote:



> Just to provide a correctionn to above error.  Plants take Cs-137 up as a 

> potassium analog. As I've mentioned in an earlier post on this BNL fawn 

> story, Cs and K are chemical congeners being in the same family on the 

> periodic table. 

> 

> Interestingly fallout Cs-137 from weapon's testing or Chernobyl deposited as 

> as carrier free Cs-137. Studies of forests in Belgium after the Chernobyl 

> accident showed Cs-137 was actively absorbed by trees directly through the 

> leaves, since trees have mechanisms to absorb potassium from the air and in 

> the trees "thirst" for potassium absorbed Cs-137 in its place.

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