Sentences with phrase «by radioactivity»

Injury or Disease directly or indirectly caused by or contributed by ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from burning nuclear fuel.

Ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste, from combustion of nuclear fuel, the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any nuclear assembly or nuclear component of such assembly.

NUCLEAR RISK - Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Loss or damage due to ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel is excluded from the insurance plan.

Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Ioinising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel OR

Any bodily injury to the Insured person, consequential loss, legal liability, directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the Combustion of nuclear fuel.

For any claim arising from damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expenses whatsoever resulting or arising from or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste from the combustion fuel or the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof.

Any liability caused by or due to consequential event due to ionising, radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from, any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

A subtheme of blurred boundaries between what is natural and what is artificial can be seen in the work Cultivation by Radioactivity in the Electronic Circuit (Pink Flower) by the late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935 — 1990) and in Si - Qin's inclusion of two turkey feathers which have been hand - modified to resemble the feathers of Golden Eagles.

Tetsumi Kudo, Cultivation by Radioactivity in the Electronic Circuit (Pink Flower), 1968, plastic, Plexiglas, polyester, 29 11/16 x 10 1/16 x 10 inches.

Virtual Dating Isochron for rocks and minerals; Virtual Dating Radiocarbon (Carbon Radioactive definition, of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.

By tracking geoneutrinos produced by the decay of uranium - 238 and thorium - 232 in Earth's interior, the detector, called Kamland, has provided the first direct measurement of the amount of terrestrial heat caused by radioactivity.

The psychological and social problems created by the «baby A-bombs» dropped on Japan are minor compared to the aftermath of a hydrogen Armageddon with an estimated 93 million Americans and at least that many Russians destroyed and much of the earth poisoned by radioactivity.

Not exact matches

In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted by all scientists — that in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atoms.

Two thousand years of Christian history become decreasingly venerable when confronted by the findings of radioactivity dating techniques which date the hardened crust of the earth at three billion years.

They say The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity.

The amount and form of radioactivity in human milk after lung scanning, renography and placental localization by 131 I labelled tracers.

The map showed the seismic speeds varied more than expected over these distances and were probably driven by heat transfer across the core - mantle boundary and radioactivity.

This is the case because even when fission is stopped by driving neutron - absorbing control rods into a reactor core, radioactivity still warms the fuel rods.

Segre's work in Rome, and later in Sicily, concerned radioactivity, and especially the «artificial» radioactivity produced by bombarding different substances with neutrons.

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

This is almost twice the radioactivity released at Chernobyl, according to Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, by Kate Brown, a history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Pierre Curie's vital contribution and personality are rendered almost invisible, and Emling says little about the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel and the Curies in the 1890s — and botches the references she does make to the Curies» legendary preparation of radium between 1899 and 1902.

«The radioactivity released by dirty bombs is not life threatening,» says Angelo Acquista, former medical director of the Office of Emergency Management in New York City and author of The Survival Guide: What to Do in a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency.

A novel cesium - transporting bacterial pump developed by researchers at the NITech could be beneficial in radioactivity decontamination efforts.

Ewing's Russian colleagues, led by Alexander Novikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sampled the groundwater taken from wells up to four kilometers from the scene of original contamination, where radioactivity levels reach roughly 1,000 becquerels (nuclei decaying per second) per liter.

He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for inducing radioactivity in matter by slamming neutrons into atoms.

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

Another radioactive gas, krypton, was injected to help scientists distinguish between signals produced by ambient radioactivity and a potential dark matter signal.

Now researchers may have found a way to combat this waste buildup by using a genetically engineered microbe that resists radioactivity and breaks down chemicals at the sites.

I confess, I don't normally keep an eye out for the latest publications in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, but one recent paper on radioxenon measurements is of particular interest.This paper, as it turns out, is by one of the leading researchers in radioxenon testing, who happens to be a former professor and advisor of mine at The University of Texas at Austin.

Experiments funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are now under way on the Carneddau mountains of Snowdonia and the Cumbrian hills at Corneyfell, near Bootle, to see if decontamination zones can be created where lambs can be taken to lose their radioactivity before slaughter.

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

A survey of mines by the Devon and Cornwall Prospecting Society has found up to 2.8 million Becquerels of radioactivity per cubic metre of air.

Very high levels of radioactivity from radon gas have been found in abandoned mines used by prospectors in Southwest England.

In it they would seek the elusive «dark matter» whose gravity binds the galaxies, a type of radioactivity that would blur the line between matter and antimatter, and protons falling apart as predicted by some particle theories.

By the time the water reaches this area and is taken up into seafood, radioactivity is probably well diluted below what is probably dangerous for human consumption, but marine biologist Nicholas Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York says that the study will be a useful baseline to understand how radiation is dispersed in the specific ocean patterns and sea life of the Pacific.

Fanned by winds that shifted suddenly to the east, the fallout plume spread high levels of radioactivity over an area that stretched for hundreds of kilometers and included several inhabited islands.

The review did not calculate how much radioactivity people may be exposed to, even though such calculations are routinely completed by scientists studying radiation exposure.

The stealthy approach promises to significantly reduce the dose of radioactivity required for treatment by providing far more targeted destruction.

The immediate outcome was to launch six reports, written by international teams of scientists, on major pollutants in the Arctic: acids, metals, noise, oil, organic compounds, and radioactivity.

By comparison, the Chernobyl accident released an estimated 50 million curies of radioactivity.

«The complacency of governments about acceptable levels of environmental radioactivity has been punctured by this authoritative report.»

One key question is by what fraction would radioactivity be increased if all the «dumped» material were to be dispersed.

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.

However, three years earlier in 1895, a scientist named Wilhelm Röntgen first discovered X-rays and the phenomenon of radioactivity (a term later coined by Curie, based on the Latin word for «ray»).

By turning off the pumps in the intermediate loop and halting flow through the steam generator, any radioactivity can be isolated to the primary or intermediate system.

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.

(D — I) Blood samples were taken at the indicated times, and radioactivity remaining in the plasma samples (10 μl) was determined by liquid scintillation counting (n = 3 — 4 / group).