Sentences with phrase «lived radioactive particles»

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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.

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.

Paul Schaffer, associate laboratory director of the life sciences division of Canada's particle physics laboratory TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility), which uses particle accelerators to create radioactive materials for medicine, explains in a public lecture that will be broadcast live here on this webpage Wednesday, December 2 at 7 P.M. Eastern time.

But fish and seaweed could concentrate radioactive particles to levels higher than those in the surrounding waters, so monitoring will be crucial to assess the impact on marine life.

And the radioactive particles used previously have often decayed before reaching the cancer cells, because the isotopes used have short half - lives.