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The water contains two of the least dangerous radioactive materials now in the news — radioactive nitrogen and tritium.
Radioactive nitrogen decays within seconds of its release, and argon poses no threat to health.
Based on the abundance of these cyanobacteria and the rate at which they gobble down radioactive nitrogen in the laboratory, the researchers estimate they account for about 10% of nitrogen fixation in the ocean.
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Monte Carlo method was employed in the design process and only radioactive nitrogen-16 was considered as the source of radiation.
This radioactive form of nitrogen does not occur in nature.
Experts say it would be natural for radioactive isotopes of nitrogen and argon to have escaped as well.
Like a ticking clock, carbon-14 atoms transmute by radioactive decay to nitrogen-14, atom-by-atom, to form an ever-smaller percentage of the total carbon.
This radioactive carbon is continually formed when nitrogen atoms of the upper atmosphere collide with neutrons produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays with the atmosphere.
However we only read "Taking into account the high radiation level... converters of radioactive energy into reduced carbon and nitrogen containing metabolites".
Taking into account the high radioactivity level on primordial Earth, the ZnS edifices would have worked as natural converters of radioactive energy into reduced carbon and nitrogen-containing metabolites.
Nitrogen is the most common gas in the earth's atmosphere, and at a nuclear plant the main radioactive form is known as nitrogen-16.
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