Sentences with phrase «including radioactive»

Furthermore, I define the «system» to be comprised of two «subsystems»: (1) the enclosed object including its radioactive internal energy source, and (2) the glass shield.

This allows it to act as an effective detoxifier since heavy metals, drug residues, and other pollutants, including radioactive ions, have a positive charge.

There are a few different treatment options, including radioactive iodine therapy, surgical treatment, and medication.

It also offers protection against hazardous dusts (including radioactive particulates) and liquid chemical splashes.

Radioactive isotopes, including radioactive iodine, used for diagnostic testing or therapy are NOT safe during breastfeeding because these compounds accumulate in milk and are hazardous to the baby.

A good example is that many oil companies don't abandon wells drilled in the 50's 60's and 70's because they know some nasty stuff including radioactive isotopes have been tossed into mud pits and sumps and that it will cost them a small fortune to clean up.

These include radioactive isotopes, antimetabolites, cancer chemotherapy agents, and a small number of other medications.

These include radioactive drugs used for some diagnostic tests like Gallium - 69, Iodine - 125, Iodine - 131, or Technetium - 99m, antimetabolites, and a few cancer chemotherapy agents.

The approval does not sit well with Rep. Nita Lowey (D, NY17) who said the NRC «should not ease any type of testing requirement at Indian Point» as she pointed to the recent leaks at three wells that included radioactive tritium earlier this month.

The fallout from that April 1986 accident included radioactive iodine, which settled across swathes of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, contaminating pastures grazed by dairy cows.

The slag, which typically includes some radioactive uranium and radium in addition to calcium minerals, is the waste product from the conversion of phosphate ore to phosphorus.

But the crescent - shaped C. moniliferum caught Krejci's eye because of its unusual ability to remove strontium from water, depositing it in crystals that form in subcellular structures known as vacuoles — an knack that could include the radioactive isotope strontium 90.

For instance when developing risk models for radioactive waste that includes radioactive chloride,» says Teresia Svensson, senior lecturer at Linköping University.

It is believed to prevent the absorption from the gut by binding toxic elements, which include radioactive strontium, barium, and cadmium.

Villains include the radioactive Blight and Joker.

I had the impression that Mike was claiming that he couldn't get the Earth to cool to 3K and I was simply trying to point out that if you include radioactive decay, you wouldn't expect it to be 3K today in the absence of the Sun, and even if you ignore radioactive decay, it would still take longer than the age of the Universe for an Earth - like planet to cool to the temperature of the cosmic - background.

This includes radioactive materials, toxics, and green house gasses.

Not exact matches

Several American cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu, have response plans for terrorist attacks, including so - called «dirty bombs» containing radioactive material.

These include the products of radioactive decay, cosmic rays (the highest - energy form of electromagnetic radiation known to man), and the stellar wind, a stream of particles that fly out from any star as it continuously burns.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

These would include certain metabolic disorders of a baby and, for example, chemotherapy or radioactive medications in the mother.

A number of medications should be avoided while breastfeeding, including drugs prescribed to kill cancer cells, radioactive drugs and illicit drugs, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics» Committee on Drugs.

This includes chemotherapy and radioactive isotopes.

Solid radioactive wastes include laundry (considered low - level waste) and irradiated spent fuel (considered high - level waste.)

And, indeed, there have been numerous incidents at the plant, including leakage of the radioactive isotopes tritium and strontium - 90 into the Hudson River, contamination of groundwater and, last year alone, voluntary venting of «mildly radioactive» steam, plus a transformer explosion.

Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic waste water from a fracked well have not been rectified.

Other dubious cures have included injections of arsenic, potassium cyanide, and even the radioactive element thorium.

Each carried 10 separate science instruments, including cameras and devices to measure magnetism and charged particles, along with a state - of - the - art eight - track - tape data recorder and a long - lasting radioactive generator.

The following year, the U.S. Pacific atomic test Castle Bravo showered a Japanese fishing vessel with radioactive fallout, resulting in 23 cases of radiation sickness (including one death) and a boatload of contaminated tuna.

The original dust particles were made largely of silicates mixed with other materials, including water and aluminum 26, a radioactive isotope with a half - life of about 700,000 years.

This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

7 Other beneficiaries of the Freak Lab Mishap include Plastic Man (struck by a falling drum full of acid), the Hulk (irradiated by an experimental bomb), and of course, Spider - Man (bitten by a radioactive spider).

Mariotte said utilities that want to build new reactors have known for 10 years that Barnwell would close but failed to include on - site storage or options for handling low - level radioactive waste in their license applications.

They are part of the radioactive waste which several governments — including the French — are planning to bury in deep underground repositories, thereby risking public anger.

Each nuclear sample has a host of distinctive attributes, including the exact mix of impurities, the ratio of different radioactive isotopes, even embedded carbon compounds that indicate the sample's age.

Shock waves from that meteorite impact deformed the minerals that made up the rock beneath the crater, including small, tough crystals that contain trace amounts of radioactive uranium and lead.

Some fungi species, including certain mushrooms, sop up radioactive elements from dirt.

A few studies have found naturally occurring radioactive materials in the solid waste, but the research only focused on several long - lived radioactive isotopes including uranium - 238 and radium - 226.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

The difference between this accident and Chernobyl, they say, is that at Chernobyl a huge fire released large amounts of many radioactive materials, including fuel particles, in smoke.

Moreover, radioactive contamination has spread to a 30 - kilometer radius of the stricken plant, including to towns even farther afield, such as Iitate, which is so contaminated that it will have to be abandoned or its soil scooped up and entirely replaced.

The first step is to list the hazards you could be exposed to through your own work or through a co-worker's work, including chemical, biological, and radioactive agents.

After all, 30 kilometers was the extent of the spread of dangerous radioactive material even at Chernobyl, a far worse nuclear accident that included an intense fire that wafted radioactive particles more than 9,000 meters into the air.

He anticipates broad applications, including stabilizing soil in flood zones, isolating radioactive isotopes, and identifying early life in the fossil record by tracking changes in carbonate mineralization.

When the wastewater comes back up after use, it often includes those and potentially dangerous natural chemicals such as arsenic, selenium and radioactive radium drawn up from subterranean recesses.

With four different uranium samples included — all labeled with fallout shelter - style «radioactive» stickers — the first sight of this 1951 kit still brings pop - eyed expressions.

They feared that spent fuel stored in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo.

This result is surprising because many types of fungi, including truffles, grow underground in — and draw nutrients from — soil prone to accumulating radioactive pollution.

When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials.