South Pole's 'hot' snow: Chernobyl source? (radioactive isotopes in Antarctic snow) From: Science News | Date: May 12, 1990| Author: Monastersky, Richard | COPYRIGHT 1990 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

South Pole's 'hot' snow: Chernobyl source?

Scientists studying Antarctic snow have discovered radioactive isotopes they think may have come from the April 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. But others question whether significant amounts of Chernobyl's fallout could cross the equator and reach the South Pole.

Geochemist Jack E. Dibb and his colleagues from the University of New Hampshire in Durham analyzed samples collected ...

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