Contaminants · Radionuclides
Strontium-90Sr-90
Radioactive matter: it decays by itself, each radionuclide at its own pace (its half-life), and no treatment speeds that up; it can only be removed, isolated or left to decay.
On the national lists
Sites on the national lists whose official record names this substance. In the bar, the coloured part is the sites still listed. The lists, in full, are on the sites page.
United States
Superfund National Priorities List (NPL)13 sites
Species reported in the literature
Species that acted on this contaminant in at least one study, with the highest level of evidence available. They are pointers from the literature, not a remediation plan.
Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
The other sites with a page
Elsewhere in the world
- Bikini AtollMarshall Islands
- Enewetak Atoll and the Runit DomeMarshall Islands
- In Ekker and Reggane French nuclear test sitesIn Ekker, circa 140 km a nord di Tamanrasset, Algeria
- Mayak, Techa River and Lake KarachayOzërsk, Russia
- Polesie State Radioecological ReserveChojniki, Belarus