Dog owners warned of fatal tick-borne disease canine babesiosis which is likely to spread around UK. Four dogs have contracted the condition in recent months despite not travelling abroad, with three of the animals dying. Hollie Wilson and her dog Olive who survived babesiosis Photo: SWNS.
Uranium deposits are found all over the world. The largest deposits of uranium are found in Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada. High-grade deposits are only found in Canada. It is also found in ocean water.
Both neptunium and plutonium can be detected in uranium minerals, though the amounts are small. Uranium minerals regularly contain 1.8 microgrammes of neptunium and up to 0.15 microgrammes of plutonium per ton uranium. In addition there is also primeval plutonium on Earth. The isotope 244 has a half-life of 82.6 million years, and this is enough that a minute amount has survived since the elements making up the Earth were created in the last supernova event before the birth of the solar system.