His chemistry lab is specifically designed to
handle radioactive elements like berkelium, making it the only university lab in the country equipped to do so.
Not exact matches
The machines
handle the decaying
element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual
radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.
The team will investigate and broaden our understanding of specific groups of
radioactive elements and train students to properly
handle and examine
radioactive samples.