[vavooom]

"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to transmute the rest into shorter-lived isotopes"

From Wikipedia, it looks like Strontium-90 can be used in "treatment of bone cancer, and to treat coronary restenosis via vascular brachytherapy". Pretty cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90

[SoftTalker]

Strontium is taken up by the body like Calcium, as it's in the same group in the periodic table.

[rbanffy]

I don’t think anyone is considering its ingestion. At least I hope not, but these are very strange times.

[khuey]

Strontium-89 injections were indeed used as a palliative treatment for bone cancer, though I think they've been discontinued.

[rbanffy]

The short half life makes it less problematic than its 90 neighbour. It also decays to a stable isotope.

[temp0826]

Fwiw supplements containing strontium exist (strontium ranelate mostly), which is supposed to assist with osteoarthritis symptoms and bone growth.

[rbanffy]

None with Strontium 90

[throwawaysoxjje]

“Taken up” mean it participates in the same sort of biological processes