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"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



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


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


Strontium-89 injections were indeed used as a palliative treatment for bone cancer, though I think they've been discontinued.


The short half life makes it less problematic than its 90 neighbour. It also decays to a stable isotope.


Fwiw supplements containing strontium exist (strontium ranelate mostly), which is supposed to assist with osteoarthritis symptoms and bone growth.


None with Strontium 90


“Taken up” mean it participates in the same sort of biological processes




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