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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by vavooom on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:59PM (#44513634)
"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to transmute the rest into shorter-lived isotopes"

From Wikipedia, it looks like Strontium-90 can be used in "treatment of bone cancer, and to treat coronary restenosis via vascular brachytherapy". Pretty cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90

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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by SoftTalker on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:07PM (#44513711)
Strontium is taken up by the body like Calcium, as it's in the same group in the periodic table.
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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by rbanffy on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:03PM (#44514217)
I don’t think anyone is considering its ingestion. At least I hope not, but these are very strange times.
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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by temp0826 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:21PM (#44514361)
Fwiw supplements containing strontium exist (strontium ranelate mostly), which is supposed to assist with osteoarthritis symptoms and bone growth.
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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by rbanffy on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:05PM (#44515177)
None with Strontium 90
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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by throwawaysoxjje on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:28PM (#44514907)
“Taken up” mean it participates in the same sort of biological processes
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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by khuey on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:32PM (#44514926)
Strontium-89 injections were indeed used as a palliative treatment for bone cancer, though I think they've been discontinued.
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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by rbanffy on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:05PM (#44515171)
The short half life makes it less problematic than its 90 neighbour. It also decays to a stable isotope.
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