Among sea-weeds the kelps include some of the largest, most widely distributed and most important forms considered from an economical standpoint. They are technically classified among the crown algae in the family Laminariaceae, which comprises some twenty-five genera. Kelps occur most abundantly in the colder sea water, but they are...
The concentrations of iodophor necessary to reduce the activity
of several metabolic enzyme systems 50 percent was used as the
basic approach in attempts to elucidate the mechanism of germicidal
action of iodine. For comparisons, a chlorine-releasing germicide
(Trichlorocide) and a quaternary ammonium compound were also
tested. It was found...
Dietary iodine may play an important role in the nutritional health of freshwater fish larvae. Artemia, commonly used for the culture of larval zebrafish (Danio rerio), contain low concentrations of iodine when compared with wild zooplankton. Water-soluble micronutrients, such as iodine, are difficult to deliver to Artemia due to rapid...
This study focuses on iodine-131 detected in milk samples from the Dairy Science Unit at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California following events at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in March of 2011. The samples were collected as part of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (DCPP) Radiological Environmental...
NCRP report No.160 states that medical exposure increased to nearly half of the total radiation exposure of the U.S. population from all sources in 2006 (NCRP 2009). Part of this increase in exposure is due to the rise in nuclear medicine procedures. With this observed growth in medical radionuclide usage,...
Iodine-129 is a key risk driver at sites where nuclear materials have been fabricated or processed, and it is a predominant isotope of concern in long-term waste storage strategies. I-129 exists primarily as iodate in the subsurface at the Hanford Site in south-central Washington State. Between 15 and 40% of...