Decontamination of Potato Tubers Containing Cesium-137.
Stirring for 16 hours at 26 degrees to 35 degrees C of peeled and sliced tubers in a solution consisting of 1.2 percent KCI and 0.16 percent NaCl and containing a cation-exchange resin in the mixed K(+), Na(+) form effected Cs(187) removals exceeding 95 percent. Neither nutritional value nor palatability of the tubers was palatable) than normal tubers.
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