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Plutonium isotope anomaly discovered in Southern Hemisphere glaciers

Diagram showing the deposition of plutonium isotopes on the surface of a glacier. Credit: IFJ PAN The latest findings carried out by scientists at the PAN Institute for Nuclear Physics shed new light on the process by which plutonium isotopes accumulate in glaciers in the Southern Hemisphere. Analyzing samples of cryoconite, a sediment deposited in glaciers, not only reveals differences…