Exposure to radioactive iodine isotopes can be extremely dangerous. After the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl, children were developing thyroid cancer from consuming locally produced milk.

The film discusses the groundbreaking development of radioisotopes in medicine, beginning with the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942. It details the production and application of isotopes, ...

The high relative abundance of these tellurium isotopes gives tellurium the greater relative atomic mass. The atomic number of tellurium is 52 and the atomic number of iodine is 53, so these ...

30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Curium, a world leader in nuclear medicine, announced today that it has expanded its existing partnership with Institute of Isotopes Co. Ltd. (Izotop) to make Iodine ...

"Exposure to isotopes of iodine give the thyroid more than 1,000 times the average dose to the rest of the body." It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health ...

This process enables the radiation emitted by the radioactive isotopes to destroy harmful growths. Other elements which do not become concentrated in the body as iodine does, may be used in ...