Sentences with phrase «higher radiation damage»

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

Not exact matches

Conventional transplant conditioning employs radiation and / or high - dose cytotoxic drugs (also known as alkylators) to destroy the bone marrow and blood and immune cells; it also causes widespread cellular damage throughout the body.

Astrobiologists, who will be presenting their work at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2013 in London on Monday 9 September, have shown that Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect micro-organisms even after they have been damaged by exposure to very high levels of radiation, as is encountered on the Martian surface.

Ali found that breast cancer cells that have high levels of RYBP are more sensitive to DNA damage after radiation or drug treatment, including PARP inhibitors (inhibitors of the enzyme poly ADP ribose polymerase used in cancer treatment).

The UV LED device also emits a much narrower band of UVB light and thereby decreasing likelihood of skin damage that can occur when the skin is exposed to higher wavelengths of UV radiation.

«Doomsday» scenarios But the resulting radiation could be so high, «it would be almost impossible to get anyone in there,» to continue supplying water to the damaged reactors, he said.

Surprisingly, low - dose radiation takes longer for the body to repair than damage from high doses does.

Further, the risks associated with radiation were even higher for survivors who also received the alkylating agent procarbazine, a type of chemotherapy known to cause damage to DNA.

Radio attenuates very quickly with distance in tissue, so communicating with devices deep in the body would be difficult without using potentially damaging high - intensity radiation.

They also tolerated periods of temperatures up to 41 °C and, separately, high ultraviolet radiation — which might come about from damage to the ozone layer.

One possibility, says Chao, is that high numbers of CNVs somehow cause DNA damage by making dads less able to protect themselves from environmental insults such as radiation.

The core of the No. 1 reactor melted within 16 hours of the quake, but high radiation levels inside on March 11 hinted the shaking damaged key facilities.

Other recent research areas have included the structural characterization of lattice - mismatched epitaxial metal films on oxide substrates for radiation damage studies, and the development of new complex oxides as high temperature, radiation - resistant piezoelectrics for use in advanced in situ sensors.

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

So while it's true that organisms living deep in the Earth are not exposed to the high - energy radiation found when you travel between planets or more hypothetically between stars, the systems that cells have evolved to repair damage done by reactive oxygen species will be useful whether they arise from rocks or from cosmic rays.

Radiation, or radiation therapy, uses high - energy particles or waves to destroy or damage cancer cells.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

It also lowers risk of getting your retina damaged by high wavelength light radiations.

The brief high doses of radiation that damage or destroy cancer cells can also injure or kill normal cells.

The cell also overcomes some of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that comes from the absorption of great amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).

In reality, most GW doesn't come from GHGs and these hysterical attempts to purport imaginary cloud cooling is hiding equally imaginary high feedback CO2 - AGW, an artefact of the false «back radiation» idea, has seriously damaged science and many economies.

The small amount of this high energy, ultraviolet radiation that normally reaches Earth's surface is responsible for sunburn, skin cancer, cataracts, and damage to genetic material.