Sentences with phrase «high radiation»

All the components are located inside the storage ring tunnel where they are exposed to high radiation levels during operation.

That allows for high radiation doses in the tumor, while the nearby important organs (e.g. eyes, brain surrounding the tumor) receive much lower doses of radiation than the tumor.

These devices can also function at higher operating temperatures and in high radiation environments such as space.

Researchers exposed the whole bodies of male and female rats to high radiation for up to 10 hours per day for two years.

While high radiation doses can eventually cause cancer, the immediate health effect is to destroy dividing cells — including blood cells — which wipes out the immune system.

However, an interesting finding in the study revealed that male rats exposed to high radiation grew tumors in their hearts while the female rats did not get tumors.

Although the shorter therapy requires higher radiation doses, the experts found that this option may result in better quality of life.

He especially enjoys research focused on the study of matter at extreme conditions of high pressure, high temperature, and high radiation flux.

Answer: Watch out, vehicles with high radiation levels from the area around Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were supposed to be destroyed, but are now being sold by unscrupulous dealers.

In most of these cases, people received high radiation doses through drinking milk from cows that had grazed on iodine - contaminated pasture.

Due to factors such as wind direction, the nuclear blast released radiation «in a very patchy manner, so while the highest areas of contamination are closest to the plant, there are also areas of higher radiation quite a ways away from the reactor,» Mousseau said.

One scenario that might make more sense, Chao says, is if stem cells were banked only for a subset of 100 or so workers who were the only ones sent into high radiation areas.

Radiation exposure to the heart is avoided when possible but even with advanced radiation therapy techniques there are instances when high radiation exposure to the heart is inevitable.

Micra, a device which manufacturer and medical device giant Medtronic calls the world's smallest pacemaker (it's a one - inch long product that doesn't contain any leads), is being sent to the final frontier to examine how it's affected by high radiation and low temperatures during space flight.

Japanese officials will need to decide whether people should be allowed to return to these areas (and hot spots with even higher radiation levels) and explain the risks, says Hoffman.

A lone government, yes «gommit» scientist, warned of the unpredictability of the chemical reactions due to the complexity of the organic molecule and high radiation fields.

Even brief exposure to high radiation released from nuclear power plants or from bomb testing deranges DNA for generations to come, says Yuri Dubrova, a geneticist at the University of Leicester in England.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

Threats of explosions and dangerously high radiation doses are just some of the risks facing workers trying to avert complete meltdowns at multiple reactors in Japan

If they take space walks or work outside their vehicles, they will be exposed to the full effects of radiation from solar flares and intergalactic cosmic rays, he says, and since neither the moon nor Mars have a planet - wide magnetic field, astronauts will be exposed to relatively high radiation levels, even when they land on these surfaces.

One such scenario would be a loss of water in the pool to a level that permitted fuel rods to ignite and release perilously high radiation levels.

Mesenchymal glioma stem cells show significantly higher radiation resistance and high expression of DNA - repair genes;

«In extreme cases, if the dose is too high radiation can modify the cellular structure and generate alteration in the cells of organs found near the tumor, this causes them to lose their functions,» said Massillon, who was honored for her research with the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2015 awarded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

The analysis of the recorded diffraction showed that even tiny protein crystals which are bombarded with extremely high radiation doses can still reveal their structure on an atomic scale.

However, high temperatures and high radiation together often proved fatal for these Antarctic denizens.

Proton therapy delivers high radiation doses directly to the brain tumor site, with no damage to nearby healthy tissue.

Afterward, I was subjected to excessively high radiation, ended up getting more than Fukushima and Chernobyl, and lost 110 pounds in three months.

Long - term resolution of these problems of homes which high radiation levels and poor wastewater controls is made all the more difficult by the severe social and economic conditions in Russia.

Structural materials inside fast reactors thus undergo higher radiation damage rates than those in thermal reactors.

NASA's Twins Study has opened up the debate on health risks among astronauts, especially in high radiation zones of deep space.

MRAM can resist high radiation, can operate in extreme temperature conditions, and can be tamper resistant.

The alarming headlines stem from a Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announcement of high radiation measurements at the Fukushima site.

Consequently, they receive high radiation doses.

During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.

Since the demise of the robots, Reactor 3 still has 566 fuel - rod assemblies to be removed, not to mention Reactors 1 and 2, which have even higher radiation levels.

«We have seen improved response rates with higher radiation doses without an increase in side effects yet.»

Birds found in areas with higher radiation levels had more antioxidants and better overall body condition, the team reports online this week in Functional Ecology.

However, the city still poses danger to its inhabitants with its high radiation levels.

An extended stay on Mars, with its extremely thin atmosphere, would be lethal due to the high radiation doses, notwithstanding Matt Damon's successful Mars colonization in the movie «The Martian.»

That work has been postponed because TEPCO decided to first send a robot into the containment vessel; high radiation levels have delayed that plan.

By painstakingly reassembling partially crumbled or smashed specimens, analyzing tooth enamel to determine diet and habitat, and peering inside skeletal bone using powerful high - resolution micro-CT scans (like medical CT scans but with much higher radiation than could ever be used on a patient), the researchers have uncovered what White calls «a complex locomotor hybrid, a creature the likes of which had never been seen.»

«We believe the material will tolerate [the high radiation impacts], but there is no data to prove it,» Reynolds said.

The cells would be used as a treatment in case a high radiation exposure makes a worker sick.