oscillations of the balance electron in cesium 133. the layperson might night i didn t know what that means but we all know precisely what that means, the clock is ticking, even congress can t do anything about that. everything that happens is now but that now is already in the past just a few seconds ago. we are recording this now so you can watch it in the future. but that future is already in the past. regardless, we are out of time. at the u.s. naval observatory, chad pergram, fox news. kevin: can always count on chad for something creative and before we say good night tonight a bit of good news. a group of volunteers in round rock, texas, paying their respects to the nation s heroes who lost their lives in the september 11th attacks 21 years
fallout. in the event of a nuclear disaster, a nuclear blast, a dirty bomb, a bomb laced with radioactive material or leak or explosion at a nuclear power plant, there is a few different kinds of radioactive particles that are likely to be released. cesium and strontium are two that you might hear about in the context of radioactive fallout. they are two of the really bad ones. if you are exposed to radioactive strontium, your body treats it like calcium which means terrible things for your bones and your bone marrow and your blooped and ultimately a risk of all kinds of cancer. strontium and cesium are terrible. but the most common isotopes associated with a nuclear power plant catastrophe are two different kinds of radioactive iodine. and we know from our, you know, elementary school level table salt understanding of basic
thyroid problems related to iodine deficiency plummeted. that s why our table salt was i had i used to this day, it basically causes no harm in lots of good. so even if you don t know much about how minerals and how they work in the body, because we ve all been eating ionized table salt for a while, we all kind of know this connection between this mineral, iodine, and the thyroid. well, turns out, the other circumstance in which that is a good thing to know, is the circumstance of radioactive fallout. in the event of a nuclear blast, dirty bomb, or radioactive waste, or particularly if there is a league or an explosion at a nuclear power plant, there are a few different kinds of radioactive particles that are likely to be released. cesium and strontium are too that you might hear about in the context of radioactive fallout. there to the really bad ones,
and so even if you don t know much about how minerals work in the body, because we have all been eating iodized table salt for a while, we all kind of know this connection between this mineral iodine and the thyroid gland. well, turns out the other circumstance in which that is a handy thing to know is the circumstance of radioactive fallout. in the event of a nuclear disaster, a nuclear blast, a dirty bomb, a bomb laced with radioactive material or leak or explosion at a nuclear power plant, there is a few different kinds of radioactive particles that are likely to be released. cesium and strontium are two that you might hear about in the context of radioactive fallout. they are two of the really bad ones. if you are exposed to radioactive strontium, your body treats it like calcium which means terrible things for your bones and your bone marrow and your blood and ultimately a risk of all kinds of cancer.
if you re exposed to radioactive strontium, your body takes it him and treated like it s calcium, which means terrible things here bones and your bone marrow, and your blood, and ultimately you risk all kinds of cancer. strong team, and other radioactive isotopes like cesium are just terrible. but, the most common isotopes associated with the nuclear power plant catastrophe, are actually two different kinds of radioactive iodine. and we know, from our elementary school level table salt understanding of basic biology, that it s the thyroid the takes up iodine in the body. and that s where this matters. in the event of a radiation disaster. one of the immediate most common risks is that a lot of people are gonna get thyroid cancer. because, again, one of the most common things released and radioactive fallout, are a couple different kinds of radioactive iodine. we breathe that in, we otherwise absorbent, we take it into our thyroid. and if it is radioactive iodine, we will get thyroid ca