Sentences with phrase «about radioactive»

What about the radioactive Carbon14 created by the action of cosmic rays on nitrogen in the air?

In 2018, Lamensdorf will co-curate an exhibition at the University of Buffalo Art Galleries about radioactive waste and its human and ecological implications.

«We have the benefit of five other movies,» says co-screenwriter Stephen McFeely, «so we do not have to talk about a radioactive spider»

The utter weirdness of Alex Cox's remarkable debut — a document of L.A.'s hardcore punk scene that's also an ode to its car culture, a critique of the American middle class, and a kind - of sci - fi comedy about a radioactive Chevy Malibu — would seem to preclude its existence.

Ukrainians were also concerned about radioactive meat after Chernobyl, slaughtering 15,000 cows they feared were contaminated just a few days after the accident.

They recruited volunteers from Salt Lake City and told them about a radioactive waste facility being built 165 miles away.

As the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was unfolding in March 2011, Ryugo Hayano started posting Twitter observations about radioactive releases.

Schumer (D - N.Y.), in a one - on - one meeting last week, asked Mattis to follow up on the senator's concerns about radioactive materials at the state Superfund site.

Not exact matches

But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

So an inspector came out to the phony, empty office, but instead of turning the group down for having no security in place, or arousing suspicion about the obvious potential that the business was a shell company, he issued a license on the spot for a small amount of radioactive material.

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

And it was about a Russian dissident called, Alexander Litvinenko, who was famously murdered in 2006 with a radioactive cup of tea, poured by two assassins sent by the Kremlin to kill him.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

«The advantage of isochron dating as compared to simple radiometric dating techniques is that no assumptions are needed about the initial amount of the daughter nuclide in the radioactive decay sequence.»

We need to say to ourselves cold - bloodedly that if we do not rise to the demand of our time for a wider justice and a more stable world order, there is the real possibility that what will be left of humanity will be a few crazed survivors stumbling and mumbling about in the radioactive ruins left by the atomic war.

At Floating Hospital, we use ultrasound and radioactive scanning to learn more about your child's nodule and assess the risk of malignancy.

The EPA is responding to questions raised by U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer during a visit to Niagara County earlier this week about why the agency's staff appeared to have stopped plans for remediation of three sites with radioactive waste.

The Soviet Union tried to cover the whole thing up, making only a vague announcement about the explosion after two days had passed; the world only became aware of the true horror of the accident once a radioactive cloud that had drifted into Sweden was sourced back to Chernobyl.

When I first found that the high level radioactive waste was lethal for 240,000 years, it changed my mind about nuclear power.

As Japanese officials caution the Fukushima region about low levels of radioactive elements in soil and plants, researchers develop devices to more easily measure exposure levels

About half of the radioactive material leaves the body through the kidneys and bladder in urine.

What about the problem of storing radioactive waste?

«About 20 percent of the helium is coming from the moon itself, most likely as the result from the decay of radioactive thorium and uranium, also found in lunar rocks,» said Benna.

There are about 1,300 dry casks at 55 sites nationwide; however, most of the radioactive waste generated in the United States sits in cooling pools similar to Japan's.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

Studying such compounds in the lab also helps computational researchers to improve their predictions about the more highly radioactive elements present in nuclear waste that are even more difficult to study.

A patina of calcite coated the fragment, and the researchers used radioactive uranium in the mineral to date the bone to about 55,000 years old.

«With a scaled up solution, not only will we no longer have to think about the dangers of storing radioactive waste long - term, but we will have a viable solution to close the nuclear fuel cycle and contribute to solving the world's energy needs.

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

In 1957, an explosion occurred at a plutonium production plant, releasing about 80 tonnes of radioactive material.

The original dust particles were made largely of silicates mixed with other materials, including water and aluminum 26, a radioactive isotope with a half - life of about 700,000 years.

He envisions a global array of about 100 manganese - 54 experiments, along with tests featuring other radioactive isotopes that might work even better.

«What we're talking about here is highly complex, multicomponent radioactive waste which contains almost everything in the periodic table,» Goel said.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

Using radioactive dating techniques, the team found that the creature lived about 300,000 years ago.

If the original asteroids were bigger than about 20 kilometers across — and there's no reason to think they weren't — decaying radioactive elements inside them would have made the rock hotter than that.

And just where all the fuel and other radioactive solid debris on the site will be stored or disposed of long - term has yet to be decided; last month the site's ninth solid waste storage building, with a capacity of about 61,000 cubic meters, went into operation.

Based on the abundance of these cyanobacteria and the rate at which they gobble down radioactive nitrogen in the laboratory, the researchers estimate they account for about 10 % of nitrogen fixation in the ocean.

BRAF mutations, which occur in about 40 to 50 percent of these patients, have been associated with aggressive tumors and decreased ability of tumors to respond to radioactive iodine, typically the first line of treatment in these patients.

* Traces of radioactive gas, emitted from magma reservoirs, may indicate when volcanoes like Mount Saint Helens are about to blow, British researchers say.

Women of reproductive age who have thyroid cancer should be cautious about receiving radioactive iodine treatment, which affects their remaining egg supply — their ovarian reserve — and may affect their fertility, new research from Israel finds.

About 60 percent of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus, according to official post-Soviet data.

The findings, in the July 28 Nature, suggest that the origin of the 30 trillion to 45 trillion watts of heat produced by the earth's interior is about evenly divided between radioactive decay and leftover heat from the planet's molten formation.

What makes the pp reaction hard is that the neutrinos have very low energy that is about the same as the energy of various radioactive decays that happen on Earth, making it easy for an earthbound detector to confuse a decay with a neutrino event.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

But the furor that began last year over leakage of radioactive tritium from underground pipes into the groundwater around the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vt., illustrated how concerns about reactor safety could suddenly swamp relicensing plans.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

Hahn's feat raises chilling questions about the ease with which terrorists could acquire the components for a radioactive «dirty bomb» — questions that Silverstein, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, inexplicably fails to explore.

Pound for pound, nuclear explosives — which derive their power from runaway chain reactions in their radioactive fuel — carry about a million times the energy density of chemical explosives.

Ten state senators wrote to the Energy Department last year about the Shoreline Fault, which they said could also intersect with the existing Hosgri Fault, exacerbating the risk of radioactive leaks.