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When radioactive cesium enters body, 75% lodges in muscle tissue
including heart http://enenews.com/when-radioactive-cesium-enters-body-75-lodges-in-muscle-tissue-including-heart May 6th, 2012   By ENENews

The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a
Ticking Time-Bomb
Alternet
Brad Jacobson
May 4, 2012

[…] Nuclear experts noted that other lethal radioactive isotopes
would also be released in such a fire, but that the focus is on
cesium-137 because it easily volatilizes and spreads pervasively, as
it did during the Chernobyl accident and again after the disaster at
Fukushima Daiichi last year.

With a half-life of 30 years, it gives off penetrating radiation as it
decays and can remain dangerous for hundreds of years. Once in the
environment, it mimics potassium as it accumulates in the food chain;
when it enters the human body, about 75 percent lodges in muscle
tissue, including the heart. […]

August 8, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012, health