Sentences with phrase «by radioactive substances»

Directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from ionising radiation or contamination by radioactive substance from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

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Contaminant biology research funded by the Environmental Health Program is slated for reductions, and the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program would see funding eliminated for radioactive waste disposal and municipal wastewater science.

(A becquerel is a unit of the rate of radioactive decay — or radiation emitted by a substance.)

The radium - laden wastewater would almost certainly need to be carefully treated by plants capable of filtering out the radioactive substances.

Six years after the discovery of radioactivity (1896) by Henri Becquerel of France, the New Zealand - born British physicist Ernest Rutherford found that three different kinds of radiation are emitted in the decay of radioactive substances; these he called alpha, beta, and gamma rays in sequence of their ability to penetrate matter.

However, those fictional genetic mutations are kind of hard to come by — you have to have been bitten by some special spider or exposed to some radioactive substance.

[Studies on permeability of a zinc oxyphosphate cement and of an EBA cement by means of radioactive labelled substances].

There are various roles performed by a radiologist such as examination of internal and external organs of the human body, diagnosis of diseases if any present in the organs, assists in treatment of organs that are found infected, administers radioactive substances injected into the organs of the patient etc..