Sentences with phrase «contains radioactive materials»

The returning mixture, which contains radioactive materials and some of the natural gas from the geological formation, is supposed to be captured.

Several American cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu, have response plans for terrorist attacks, including so - called «dirty bombs» containing radioactive material.

Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills.

The study found that some well waste from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania contained radioactive material not previously reported, with the potential for leaching from landfills into the environment.

Coal ash, which contains radioactive material and heavy metals, including chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, is China's number one source of solid industrial waste.

Not exact matches

In a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosion.

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

The radioactive cloud was too thin to be dangerous, containing no more than a few grams of material, but its origin posed an outsize mystery.

One pound of this radioactive material contains the same amount of energy as one million gallons of gasoline.

A fossil is the remains or traces of a once - living plant or animal that was preserved in rock or other material before the beginning of recorded history Carbon - 14, 14 C, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.

Naturally Occurring Radioactive material, natural materials contain radioactive elements (radionuclides), known as NORM.

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.

It can also contain naturally - occurring radioactive materials.