The Fukushima nuclear accident has highlighted the importance of finding a better final storage method for radioactive cesium species. Cs is highly soluble in water, and can easily exchange with other alkali ions in zeolites or clays to form stable complexes. However, Cs(+) is released from Cs(+) complexes into water when surrounded by an excess of water. Pollucite may be the best final storage...

It has been shown experimentally for the first time that diffusion of cesium n rhenium takes place at irradiation of atoms flux heated up to Т ≤ 1800 K ( ) Re 1010 -C. Analysis of thermal desorption spectra showed that cesium forms two high-temperature phases during adsorption of cesium on graphite monolayer in rhenium heated up to 1800 K. The first, intercalated phase starts filling immediatel...

We analyzed the global transcriptional response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells exposed to different concentrations of CsCl in the growth medium and at different times after addition. Early responsive genes were mainly involved in cell wall structure and biosynthesis. About half of the induced genes were previously shown to respond to other alkali metal cations in a Hog1-dependent fashion. We...

As the main component of radioactive wastewater, cesium ion has seriously endangered environment and human health. Prussian blue nanoparticles (PB NPs) are used as adsorbents for purification cesium-containing wastewater because their ability to selectively adsorb ions. In this work, novel magnetic nanospheres (MPBNs) were developed from polylactic acid a carrier, loaded with Fe3O4 (Fe3O4 insid...

During the development of a new method of analyzing crystals by X-rays we discovered that the X-rays characteristic of and excited in the chemical elements in a crystal are reflected by the crystal itself. The reflection takes place both in accordance with the Bragg law: nX = 24 sin 0 and. also in an anomalous fashion. The ionization spectrometer utilized in these investigations and the various...

Zirconia powder was synthesized via a sol gel method and placed in a batch reactor for cesium removal investigation. X-ray analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were utilized for the evaluation of the developed adsorbent. The adsorption process has been investigated as a function of pH, contact time and temperature. The adsorption is strongly dependent on the pH of the medium whe...

It has been possible to treat potassium, rubidium, and cesium ion entry into frog sartorius muscle by the use of a model which assumes a limited number of sites at the cell surface. The ion concentration in an outer surface layer is regarded as the main factor determining the rate of inward movement. It is supposed that the concentration of ions in the external solution is effective in promotin...

Significance AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) make the final step in a relay of excitability from one brain cell to another. The receptor contains an integral ion channel, which, when opened by neurotransmitter, permits sodium and other cations cross membrane. We investigated permeation sodium, potassium, cesium at atomistic level using computational molecular dynamics approach obtained t...

From fiscal year 2012 to 2014, we surveyed the concentration of radioactive cesium in 39 wild animal meats obtained from 20 wild boars and 19 deer caught in Chiba prefecture, using a germanium semiconductor detector. Four wild boar meats in the fiscal years 2012 and 2013 exceeded the radioactive cesium limit in general foods (100 Bq/kg), whereas none of the deer meats exceeded the limit. The le...

A new mode of operation of a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) is described and demonstrated. A continuous ion beam emerging from the ion source is accelerated and then modulated by a pseudorandom sequence of “on” and “off” pulses. The data acquisition period is set to match the period of the modulation sequence, and data are acquired synchronously with the modulation of the ion beam. Th...