Sentences with phrase «love?dangerous radioactive particles»

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

DeconGel is also picks up radioactive particles that regular methods miss, the company says.

Four days after the accident, the radioactive particles were already in Africa and China.

The fire, whatever kind it was, appears to have carried radioactive particles into the surrounding countryside to the northwest as it coincided in time with the wind blowing in that direction.

The next day, radioactive particles from the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl began falling on Schönau.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

When it hardens, it shrinks by about 20 percent, sucking up fine radioactive particles and encapsulating them in its folds.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

On 6 April a tank exploded at a reprocessing plant at Tomsk, sending a cloud of radioactive particles into the air (This Week, 17 April).

A PET scanner can then detect the radioactive particles emitted from inside the brain, representing areas of increased microglial activation before and after immune stimulation with LPS.

Then I remembered seeing a science experiment at my high school in Elsinore, in which our teacher showed us what is called a cloud chamber, and seeing tracks of radioactive particles, which look like small droplets.

Workers built an elaborate scrubbing system that removes cesium, strontium and dozens of other radioactive particles from the water; some of it is recirculated into the reactors, and some goes into row upon row of giant tanks at the site.

But fish and seaweed could concentrate radioactive particles to levels higher than those in the surrounding waters, so monitoring will be crucial to assess the impact on marine life.

• Most of the radioactive particles are expected to fall out over the western Pacific Ocean.

Shellfish and other bottom feeders would be the ones most likely to suffer long - term contamination as radioactive particles settle on the sediment.

If left exposed to air, they may catch fire or explode, spreading radioactive particles into the air.

Nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and»60s blasted radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

Marine scientists have calculated that, based on all the radioactive particles released (or leaking) from Fukushima, a dose due to this most recent nuclear accident would add up to a total of roughly one microsievert (a unit of radiation exposure) of extra radiation — roughly one tenth the average daily dose most Americans experience, one fortieth the amount from a cross — North America flight and one one - hundredth the exposure from a dental x-ray.

Another perennial concern is that the water contaminated with radioactive particles still leaking from the stricken nuclear power plant site is poisoning Pacific Ocean fish and other seafood.

Taking samples of such speleothems from six caves, the researchers then reconstructed the last roughly 500,000 years of climate via the decay of radioactive particles in the stone.

And that means there may be two direct paths for radioactive particle byproducts of nuclear fission, such as cesium 137 and iodine 131, to escape and spread radiation — cracks in containment as well as the spent fuel pools now open to the air.

Such an explosion would then waft the uranium and other radioactive particles into the air.

After all, 30 kilometers was the extent of the spread of dangerous radioactive material even at Chernobyl, a far worse nuclear accident that included an intense fire that wafted radioactive particles more than 9,000 meters into the air.

This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.

Dounreay also suffered an explosion at its dumping ground for used sodium coolant that may have contributed to radioactive particles from spent fuel turning up on nearby beaches.

And the radioactive particles used previously have often decayed before reaching the cancer cells, because the isotopes used have short half - lives.

Others were fed radioactive particles.

The estimate of 11,000 fatal cancers also does not include internal radiation exposure caused by the breathing in or swallowing of radioactive particles.

That temperature is maintained by the decay of radioactive particles located within the Earth's core.

Right out of the international news, forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear wreck in Ukraine have raised dangerous radioactive particles into the atmosphere — again.

When inhaled, these radioactive particles can damage the cells that line the lung.

It binds to radioactive particles flushing them out of the body and is very effective in detoxifying our organism from mercury, which is very important as most of us might be contaminated with mercury through dental fillings, vaccination, or fish consumption.

Hidden beliefs So we want to know what is the change in isotopes over time due to the emission of radioactive particles.

Being exposed to the toxic environment for so many years, these pups have radioactive particles on their fur and inside their bodies.

Assume body «B» is a thin spherical shell (external radius, RI) with a radioactive source (make it an alpha particle emitter so that the energy of the radioactive particles are quickly converted to random molecular motion) uniformly (i.e., symmetrically) distributed throughout the shell wall.

It's been 30 years since the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine in which a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed a slew of radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

Swept along by winds and settled by heavy rains, radioactive particles, especially caesium - 137 (137Cs), polluted large stretches of the European continent.

The scientists brought their 1.55 metre cores to the surface in 1993, but it has taken another two decades for laboratory techniques to detect and interpret the significance of radioactive particle samples in the rock that could only have come from outer space — which is why scientists think the bedrock must have been exposed, possibly more than once.

Dane: I just now (4-14-16) heard you discuss climate engineering and the synergistic complexities which flare into existence when combined with Fukushima Radiation in both the air and the Pacific — and other radioactive particles from who knows where (Iraq war DU,left - over above ground atomic explosions, millions of tons of nuke waste just dumped into the oceans since 1945)?

«Radon gas decays into radioactive particles that can get trapped in your lungs when you breathe,» according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Not exact matches

We've already done that with the opposite reaction, fission — the breaking of large atoms into smaller particles — which leaves us with the troublesome byproduct of radioactive waste.

He stands on the shoulders of giants to invent (not discover, big diff) what is essentially a doo dad that depends on radioactive decay rates, particle physics etc...

These include the products of radioactive decay, cosmic rays (the highest - energy form of electromagnetic radiation known to man), and the stellar wind, a stream of particles that fly out from any star as it continuously burns.

These particles are one of the most pervasive forms of matter in the Universe: they are created in the Sun and in supernovas, by cosmic rays crashing into the upper atmosphere, and they are even made on Earth, streaming out from nuclear reactors and radioactive rocks.

Mysterious seasonal wobbles in the rate of radioactive decay may be caused by elusive particles from the sun

Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.

Strict federal regulation governs the handling of irradiated materials, from core components to PC boards, which can turn radioactive from particle bombardment.

Each carried 10 separate science instruments, including cameras and devices to measure magnetism and charged particles, along with a state - of - the - art eight - track - tape data recorder and a long - lasting radioactive generator.

The EPR authors described a source, such as a radioactive nucleus, that shot out pairs of particles with the same speed but in opposite directions.