Sentences with phrase «generating radioactive elements»

«These discoveries are important in understanding that water - rich regions in the Earth's interior can play a role in the global water budget and the movement of heat - generating radioactive elements,» Tschauner said.

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Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.

At the US government's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researchers are generating neutrons with a particle accelerator and using them to transmute long - lived radioactive elements.

Natural circulation in the reactor alone is enough to remove all the heat generated by the radioactive decay of the elements in the reactor fuel.

If coal ash, a waste product from burning coal to generate power, contains concentrated levels of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and radioactive elements, is it hazardous?

There are in addition, an array of decaying radioactive elements that generate heat.

Part of this heat is generated by the natural decay of radioactive element in the rocks, and part of the heat is left over from the formation of the Earth five billion years ago — when gravity pulled together bits of gas and dust to form our planet.

It will not stop warming until the amount radiated to space equals the amount generated by the radioactive elements in the planet.

«About 50 % of the heat given off by the Earth is generated by the radioactive decay of elements such as uranium and thorium, and their decay products.

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.