Sentences with phrase «by radioactive material»

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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.

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.

EPA officials said it is possible that Raymond has radioactive fill under his home that may be linked to similar material found across the street by Holy Trinity Cemetery.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

The EPA also flagged health risks to workers close to wastewater and other potentially radioactive materials, like the large amounts of soil and mud unearthed by drilling.

A dirty bomb — radioactive material by a conventional explosive — «is much less of a problem to detonate and if successful would render a large swath of a big city uninhabitable for years,» he says.

A report to Congress in 2006 by a National Research Council panel investigating terrorist threats to spent fuel storage concluded that «under some conditions,» if a pool were partially or completely drained, that «could lead to a propagating zirconium cladding fire and the release of large quantities of radioactive materials to the environment.»

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.

The old, slow test detected the auto - antibodies using radioactive materials, took several days, could only be performed by highly - trained lab staff and cost several hundred dollars per patient.

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.

In a bid to restart discussion of what to do with the nation's nuclear waste, four U.S. senators today unveiled a draft plan to create a federal agency that would oversee short - and long - term storage of the highly radioactive materials produced primarily by commercial power reactors.

The radioactive material was reprocessed by the French company Cogema in La Hague and will be used in Japan's fast - breeder nuclear reactor programme.

In its 2017 Budget - in - Brief, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lists among its priorities allocating $ 103.9 million for radiological and nuclear detection equipment «to keep U.S. ports of entry safe and secure by detecting and interdicting illicit radioactive or nuclear materials.»

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

These bed filters and hydrous manganese oxide technologies are expected to reduce the naturally occurring radioactive materials generated during the removal of radioactivity by 90 %, as well as cutting treatment costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Such tests are often performed by injecting a small amount of radioactive material into the blood and tracking its path with cameras that detect radioactive decay.

Uranium dating is one of the ways of determining the age of ancient objects, even one million years old, by measuring how much of the following are present in them: the amount of radioactive isotopes of uranium, and the amount of other materials into which the radioactive isotopes would decompose.

The consequence is that the amount of the radioactive material is loosing its mass over time by emmiting energy or particles.

A Hazardous Materials Safety Permit is required if you're transporting radioactive materials, explosives, «toxic by inhalation materials,» orMaterials Safety Permit is required if you're transporting radioactive materials, explosives, «toxic by inhalation materials,» ormaterials, explosives, «toxic by inhalation materials,» ormaterials,» or methane.

I came across a disturbing New Yorker article from 2007 by Steve Coll, who wrote of the alarming amount of unguarded, highly radioactive material floating around the world, and the ease with which it could be made into a dirty bomb.

The iodine is taken up by the active (abnormal) thyroid tissue, but not by any other tissues, resulting in a selective local accumulation of radioactive material in the abnormal tissues.

I've heard that one can speed up radioactive decay slightly by compressing the radioactive material, but the best speed - up I've heard of is only one percent, and the compression would probably consume a lot of energy.

By the way, my arguments assume that tokamak physics and technology works well and is reasonably simple, meaning that not many more components will have to be added to the system to allow it to operate on a steady basis for very long periods of time between the long shutdowns needed to change out radiation - damaged, radioactive materials.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

So this is what Green Audit and other anti-nuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

... The document shows Trump advisers contemplating ways to keep aging U.S. nuclear power plants on line, including by addressing concerns about the long - term storage of spent radioactive material.

Their approach involves converting radioactive material into short - lived nuclides by absorbing surplus neutrons... Read more →

By then, they all knew better, but they went ahead and dumped all that radioactive material into the soil.

Followed rules and guidelines by the NRC to work safely around radiation and radioactive materials