On the frontier of science for food and agriculture
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Joint FAO/IAEA Nuclear Techniques Centre works on a vast spectrum of areas that underpin food security and safety
5 March 2021, Rome - Nuclear weapon tests offer valuable insight into how to measure soil erosion and enable the restoration of healthy soils we need to grow our food.
The caesium-137 (Cs-137) radionuclides released into the atmosphere and spread around the world from nuclear tests conducted more than half a century ago are deposited on the earth s surface through rain, offering the opportunity to precisely assess the rate of soil erosion, even in in remote areas where no past data is available.
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