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Small amounts of Cs-137 are incorporated into Lucite disks, rods, and seeds.

Small quantities of Cs-137 can be found in the environment from nuclear weapons tests that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s and from nuclear reactor accidents, such as the Chernobyl power plant accident in 1986, which distributed Cs-137 to many countries in Europe.īecause it readily bonds with chlorides, Cs-137 usually occurs as a crystalline powder, rather than in its pure liquid form.

Cs-137 also is one of the byproducts of nuclear fission processes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons testing. In larger amounts, Cs-137 is used in medical radiation therapy devices for treating cancer in industrial gauges that detect the flow of liquid through pipes and in other industrial devices to measure the thickness of materials, such as paper, photographic film, or sheets of metal.Ĭs-137 is produced by nuclear fission for use in medical devices and gauges. Chemical properties: Liquid at room temperature, but readily bonds with chlorides to form a powder.Ĭs-137 is used in small amounts for calibration of radiation-detection equipment, such as Geiger-Mueller counters.

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