Sentences with phrase «background radioactivity»

In a study published March 26 in Physical Review Letters, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions working on the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment have shown that they can shield a sensitive, scalable, 44 - kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity.

Collaborators of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44 - kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity.

«We could never use it for our experiment, which is exactly about keeping background radioactivity to a minimum,» says Ettore Fiorini, a physicist at the University of Milan - Bicocca and coordinator of the CUORE experiment.

Unfortunately, there was also about a 25 percent chance that the events were instead caused by background radioactivity.

Some flashes occur as a result of collisions by stray neutrons and other background radioactivity.

Not exact matches

RADIOACTIVITY DETECTIVES The Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant, shown in the background here in 2016, was damaged in 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami.

In fact, Maine Coast, a seaweed purveyor that regularly tests their products for toxins, found that their products only have background levels of radioactivity even right after the Fukushima event in March 2011 (source).

Store waste in a well - ventilated space away from your primary living areas, and hold for an additional 2 weeks so natural decay will reduce radioactivity to background levels.