{"id":189749,"date":"2024-05-19T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/world-first-imaging-of-radioactive-cesium-atoms-in-environmental-samples"},"modified":"2024-05-19T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T22:28:12","slug":"world-first-imaging-of-radioactive-cesium-atoms-in-environmental-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/world-first-imaging-of-radioactive-cesium-atoms-in-environmental-samples","title":{"rendered":"World First Imaging of Radioactive Cesium Atoms in Environmental Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-imaging-of-radioactive-cesium-atoms-in-environmental-samples.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utsunomiya explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>It was incredibly exciting to see the beautiful pattern of Cs atoms in the pollucite structure, where about half of the atoms in the image correspond to radioactive Cs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He continued: \u201cthis is first time humans have directly imaged radioactive Cs atoms in an environmental sample. Finding concentrations of radioactive Cs high enough in environmental samples that would permit direct imaging is unusual and presents safety issues. Whilst it was exciting to make a scientific world first image, at the same time it\u2019s sad that this was only possible due to a nuclear accident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utsunomiya explained: It was incredibly exciting to see the beautiful pattern of Cs atoms in the pollucite structure, where about half of the atoms in the image correspond to radioactive Cs. He continued: \u201cthis is first time humans have directly imaged radioactive Cs atoms in an environmental sample. Finding concentrations of radioactive Cs high enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}