Sentences with phrase «as radioactive»

While there are certainly contaminants, such as radioactive waste, that will pose immediate and continuous health risks if left in place, more often than not, contaminants can be safely capped and left onsite.

Coal ash slurry, which is a combination of water and materials leftover from the coal combustion process, contains ingredients that can cause cancer and brain damage as well as radioactive elements.

In any case, no - one is suggesting that the planet's core is getting hotter, which would be needed to actually make our planet warm; to the contrary, the planet will be very slowly cooling as the radioactive elements in the core providing this heat gradually lose their energy.

The fuel for aneutronic fusion would likely be boron, which is literally as common as mud and about as radioactive as your morning toast.

We can't afford to treat it as radioactive waste.

Brachytherapy is less damaging to surrounding tissue than external beam therapy, but as the radioactive material is placed inside the cancer, the animal becomes radioactive.

FHA homes are also inspected for hazardous conditions such as radioactive materials, toxic chemicals and erosion.

There's pseudo science, such as the radioactive effects of kryptonite on Superman.

The picture appears to be actor Peter Sarsgaard in make up as the radioactive criminal.

If you receive definitive treatment for your Graves» hyperthyroidism (such as radioactive iodine or surgery), you will eventually develop hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid).

Also when you're using kelp you get a multitude of additional minerals including some, such as radioactive materials, dependent on the source of the kelp....

A blue - green algae that dates back as a food source for the Aztecs in 16th century Mexico, spirulina has been shown as an effective chelating agent for removing toxins such as mercury, as well as radioactive substances from the body.

But as the radioactive elements decay into more stable ones, they stop releasing heat and the interiors of these objects gradually cool, and any subsurface oceans will eventually freeze.

For instance, radiocarbon dating determines the age of biological remains based on the ratio between the carbon isotopes (atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons) carbon - 12 and carbon - 14 it holds - this proportion changes as radioactive carbon - 14 breaks down while stable carbon - 12 does not.

To do this, they used a technique known as radioactive dating.

Curiosity's RTG was designed to supply about 125 watts — less energy than what is needed to power a microwave oven — though power levels fall as the radioactive plutonium decays.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

The fact that atoms could be trapped in a sealed cell also meant rare species of atoms, such as radioactive isotopes, could be optically manipulated.

As Kaiser explains it, an experiment would go something like this: A laboratory setup would consist of a particle generator, such as a radioactive atom that spits out pairs of entangled particles.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

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

If the fuel rods are no longer being cooled — as has happened at all three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant operating at the time of the earthquake — then the zirconium cladding will swell and crack, releasing the uranium fuel pellets and fission byproducts, such as radioactive cesium and iodine, among others.

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.

As long as no radioactive isotope is used there is no concern and the mother should not stop even for one feed.

To calculate something millions and billions of years old, we use other methods such as radioactive decay.

The experimental device shot a beam of X-rays at its infinitesimal target, which in turn yielded a pattern on some photographic film resting behind it as the radioactive waves diffracted off of the molecule's atoms and etched a smudgy outline of its shape.

I've got a mineral cabinet full of rare earth minerals (as well as radioactives) from all over the world.

Not exact matches

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

Together, the explosions released 400 times as much radioactive fallout as the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

«When a thermonuclear weapon is surrounded with with ordinary cobalt (cobalt - 59) metal,» as Russia's Status 6 is rumored to be, «the fast neutrons escaping the explosion will instantly transmute it into radioactive cobalt - 60, which would vaporize, condense, and then fall back to earth tens, hundreds, or thousands of miles from the site of the explosion.»

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.

Fallout is a mess of bomb material, soil, and debris that is vaporized, made radioactive, and sprinkled as dust and ash across the landscape by prevailing winds.

Carcinogenic, radioactive elements such as uranium and plutonium are too impractical, as are synthetic elements that exist only momentarily in lab experiments — seaborgium and einsteinium, for example.

Yes, #HimStill As the White House scrambles to deal with the radioactive fallout of the Rob Porter scandal, the search for a scapegoat is leading to a dizzying round of finger pointing.

«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.»

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.

Eugene Rabinowitch comments on Bridgman's article: «Does he expect to find satisfaction, as he contemplates the radioactive ruins of Harvard Yard, in the thought that he, at least; had resisted all attempts to saddle him with responsibility that was not his?»

Our radioactive garbage will remain hazardous for 10,000 years or more; what is our responsibility to people as yet unborn?

Centuries of research, tens of thousands of fossils unearthed, dated with the most reliable scientific methods (radioactive istopes such as Carbon - 14, potassium - argon, uranium - lead, etc), ample amounts of geological data, comparing rock formations from Africa and South America, from the British Isles and the Appalachians, coming to the evidence that these rocks were once united under the same continent (Pangaea, Gondwanaland, Rodinia, etc), etc, etc...

There has been a stagnation in the building of nuclear power stations in Europe as fears concerning safety have mounted, especially in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, and the problem of the disposal and storage of radioactive waste materials has not been solved.

I think that after most radioactive scans, the mother can continue breastfeeding, but if she and her physician are truly concerned, waiting 2 half lives is enough, for a material such as technetium.

You should also steer clear of radioactive drugs, often used to treat thyroid cancer, as it may take weeks for the radioactivity to clear the breast milk.

Women who need to take certain other drugs such as amiodarone, chloramphenicol, lithium, radioactive agents, or tetracycline should do so only with physician supervision.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Yesterday home secretary John Reid confirmed that police were treating the death as suspicious, after discovering high quantities of the radioactive material polonium - 210 (Po - 210) in Mr Litvinenko's body.

Since at least August 2005, radioactive contaminants such as tritium and strontium - 90 have been leaking from Indian Point's spent fuel pools into the groundwater and the Hudson River.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

As a matter of regular operation, radiation is released from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.

This would be a «radioactive» situation, according to the aide, because Senate Democratic leaders could not deny Blagojevich entry, as sitting governors have floor privileges in the Senate.

The state lawmaker said among her concerns are education and job creation, as well as cleaning up radioactive waste in the St. Louis region.