Sentences with phrase «create radioactive»

Nuclear medicine technologists prepare, administer and measure various levels of chemicals used to create radioactive materials for imaging or therapeutic purposes.

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

Paul Schaffer, associate laboratory director of the life sciences division of Canada's particle physics laboratory TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility), which uses particle accelerators to create radioactive materials for medicine, explains in a public lecture that will be broadcast live here on this webpage Wednesday, December 2 at 7 P.M. Eastern time.

Working in a backyard shed, a teenage science geek creates a radioactive device capable of sparking an environmental disaster.

He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award — winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award - winning film Citizenfour (2014), and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

Some of his other projects include: launching an artwork into distant orbit around Earth (in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT), working on the Academy Award - winning film Citizenfour, and creating a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

He has contributed research and cinematography to the Oscar - winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award - winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

The fission process creates radioactive isotopes of lighter elements such as cesium - 137 and strontium - 90.

The declaration of war by one parent on another creates radioactive fallout, which contaminates for generations.

The declaration of war by one parent on another creates radioactive fallout that contaminates the family for generations.

Not exact matches

The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout, a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms.

The submarine was designed to «destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time,» the BBC reported.

While a dirty bomb isn't much deadlier than a comparable explosive without the radioactive element, it would create a biological hazard zone that could take years to clean up.

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

HOW do you create efficient fusion power with fewer radioactive by - products?

These particles are one of the most pervasive forms of matter in the Universe: they are created in the Sun and in supernovas, by cosmic rays crashing into the upper atmosphere, and they are even made on Earth, streaming out from nuclear reactors and radioactive rocks.

The gamma rays strip electrons from the molecules in the surrounding air, and the resulting free electrons lose energy and readily attach to oxygen molecules to create elevated levels of negatively charged oxygen ions around the radioactive materials.

But also new elements are created in the hot ejecta of the explosion, among them radioactive species such as 44Ti (titanium with 22 protons and 22 neutrons in its atomic nuclei) and 56Ni (28/28 neutrons / protons), which decay to stable calcium and iron, respectively.

You can wash off the contamination with soap and water — the traditional method — but that creates sizable reservoirs of radioactive runoff, which in turn has to be trapped, treated, and stored away for centuries.

At the Hanford site, creating glass with radioactive waste is expected to start in around 2022 or 2023, Goel said, and «the implications of our research will be much more visible by that time.»

Late last month, the French industry minister, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, gave conditional backing to a plan devised by the nuclear industry to create what amounts to a politician's dream: a reactor that provides plenty of electricity without generating vast quantities of long - lived radioactive waste.

As you head to the kitchen for your coffee, pause for a moment and contemplate the smoke detector operating silently overhead, a small quantity of the radioactive substance americium - 241 pouring out energy to create a thin beam of charged particles.

Perversely, the Chernobyl accident created a mildly radioactive Eden whose ecology brings to mind the unspoiled landscape of Europe before the arrival of human predators from Africa.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.

There's also a peculiar glow in the center, believed to be energy released by a radioactive isotope of titanium created in the first second of the explosion.

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.

Worldwide deforestation, mining, overgrazing, and the diversion of water have combined to create huge dust clouds that carry bacteria, viruses, soot, acids, radioactive isotopes, and pesticides from Asia and Africa to the United States

A recent audit of fire prevention measures has scorched the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the facility that created the atomic bomb during World War II and is now the home of top - level national security and radioactive material research.

Visible amid the detritus of bomb blasts are simple examples of plutonium's power — telltale shards of the radioactive green glass that is created at ground zero during a nuclear explosion.

«The shallow underwater tests performed during that time did create a highly radioactive plume with some fission products trapped in the water, although that material disperses and gets diluted fairly quickly,» Lyman says.

The increase in medical radiation exposure (from 0.53 mSv to 3.0 mSv) stemmed primarily from a rise in the use of computer tomography (CT) scans (which use x-rays to create cross sectional images of inside the body to spot tumors, clogged arteries, among other things), and nuclear imaging tests, which involve injecting radioactive chemicals into the bloodstream that can be picked up by special instruments and used to create images of the body's inner structures.

Radiocarbon is a radioactive form of carbon that's created when nitrogen reacts with cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere.

These are created by radiation of many kinds, some coming from above, such as cosmic rays, and some from rocks, such as the decay of radioactive minerals.

The MIT Study found that reprocessing and recycling plutonium — which creates weapon - usable material and some of the most radioactive waste in the world — is also uneconomic and likely to remain so for decades to come.

Davies» interest in Io's volcanoes arises from the moon's resemblance to an early Earth when heat from the decay of radioactive elements — much more intense than radiogenic heating today — created exotic, high - temperature lavas.

The conditions were so extreme that this environment was ripe for chunks of radioactive neutron star material to stick together, creating new elements.

Tungsten contains one isotope of mass 182 that is created when an isotope of the element hafnium undergoes radioactive decay, meaning its elemental composition changes as it gives off radiation.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

Since then, taxpayers have coughed up $ 11 billion creating a repository 1,000 feet underground that would keep the radioactive refuse...

These free radicals beget more free radical formation, creating «free radical cascades» that, like radioactive energy, can be absorbed by every cell in your body, creating tissue damage and frying your arteries.

Uh, maybe because the only possible way to create sufficient pressure for something as «radioactive» (Mike's word) as tenure reform is the «competitive effects» created by choice?

Toys or blankets from home are also not permitted because they would become contaminated and create more radioactive waste to be disposed of.

✓ Creates a different every time for hours of radioactive fun!

Aboriginal artist Gordon Hookey has created a giant, angry and bitterly funny painting featuring a crowd of very pissed - off radioactive kangaroos.

Toho studios became famous for their use of miniatures in creating scenes where in whole villages and even the city of Tokyo are decimated by the violence and chaos brought on from Godzilla's wrestling and radioactive breath.

Accordingly, we should not construct any additional nuclear reactors until and unless we devise a way to render the spent fuel therefrom harmless = not be more radioactive than the world Mother Nature has created in which we live.

U.S. wind farms benefit wildlife by helping to keep our environment clean, as wind energy emits no air or water pollution, requires no fuel, uses no water in the production of power, and creates no hazardous or radioactive waste.

When it came to stopping the dumping of radioactive waste in the world's oceans (led by UK and not participated in by the US), it was Greenpeace and the Seamen's Unions (in response to their activism) that stopped the dumping — I was then a scientist / legal activist advising NGOs such as Greenpeace, AND when the governments eventually got the message that they had to clean up their act, I helped the UN create better protection of the marine environment.