Sentences with phrase «made radioactive»

The supernova made all radioactive elements including plutonium, cesium 137, etcetera.

Erich Berger and Mari Keto have made radioactive jewels, part of their Inheritance Project, that are unwearable by humans — and remain locked in a concrete vault equipped with radiation measurement devices.

You should imagine thousands upon thousands of your people dead... this town of yours reduced to ashes, imagine it gone, buried under dirt, made radioactive as if it had never existed like District 13.

Large stable nuclei were also made radioactive by powerful bremsstrahlung radiation.

«We think that supernova explosion made radioactive aluminum - 26 and iron - 60,» Russell says.

Fallout is a mess of bomb material, soil, and debris that is vaporized, made radioactive, and sprinkled as dust and ash across the landscape by prevailing winds.

Microwaves don't denature food, listening to radio waves don't destroy your hearing or make you radioactive, wavelengths is key.

(By the way, because of the way dye reacts to light it makes it radioactive.

But the neutrons still degrade the structure of the reactor and make it radioactive.

Problems: sometimes the neutron goes out and hits a nucleus of the blanket and instead of just ringing it like a bell, it goes and one of the steel atoms absorb [s] the neutron; now this makes it different material, [it] makes it brittle, it makes it radioactive.

Uranium's heavy atomic weight makes it radioactive but only weakly so.

The Authority would also license and lease in the same manner as described for research reactors the construction and operation of reactors for making radioactive materials.

Quite apart from arguments about «responsible solutions» (let's not do that again), an isotope that's radioactive has potential energy — that's what makes it radioactive, after all — so that in principle transmuting it to a more stable isotope * should release energy, which could be harnessed.

Now I am involved making radioactive drugs used to diagnose cancer and alzheimer's.

These types of pharmacies make radioactive compounds and they need to be made in a way that when they are delivered to the hospital or clinic administering them, that the dose has degraded to a specific amount.

Not exact matches

Plutonium must be made permanently inaccessible because it has a radioactive half - life of 24,000 years.

FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who made 50 straight passes at a Dunes crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.

The Soviet Union tried to cover the whole thing up, making only a vague announcement about the explosion after two days had passed; the world only became aware of the true horror of the accident once a radioactive cloud that had drifted into Sweden was sourced back to Chernobyl.

They have also exhibited the pattern of behaviour to make this scenario credible, not least in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko using a radioactive isotope in 2006.

The agreement requires Entergy to make repairs and upgrades to Indian Point and its storage system for the radioactive waste that remains after the fuel is used.

Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a «bad thing,» an «agonizing decision,» making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive.

It all helps enable «precision policing,» which focuses on hard - core bad guys, as well as a sustained anti-gun effort to, as Shea puts it, make illegal firearms «radioactive.»

Soil and slag with low levels of radioactive material — a remnant of the steel - making process that once took place at RiverBend in South Buffalo — would be buried underneath a foot of clean soil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factory.

In recent weeks, Republicans and business groups have stepped up their efforts to make the party radioactive for any Democrat accepting its ballot line.

Sometimes, as is the case with radioactive isotopes, the number of neutrons present in the nucleus can make the isotope unstable.

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.

Very recently a new technique called positron emission transverse tomography has been developed that makes it possible to detect from outside the skull the presence of deoxyglucose or other substances labeled with positron emission radioactive isotopes.

These particles are one of the most pervasive forms of matter in the Universe: they are created in the Sun and in supernovas, by cosmic rays crashing into the upper atmosphere, and they are even made on Earth, streaming out from nuclear reactors and radioactive rocks.

During your time in Texas in the mid-1980s, you made one of your first big discoveries with positron emission tomography, which uses radioactive markers to monitor blood flow, among other functions.

Radiotracers are made up of carrier molecules that are bonded tightly to a radioactive atom.

For a year, in addition to testing air samples for radioactive isotopes, Bartke collected soil organisms, insects and other invertebrates, and a few snakes and lizards, making do with the little equipment and few supplies that he had.

Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.

The thus released radioactive energy makes a supernova shine bright for years.

Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to «fish out» the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste — a breakthrough that could make the decommissioning industry even safer and more effective.

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.

Previous studies have shown that fracking fluids contain high levels of salts, barium and radioactive elements, in addition to human - made chemicals added in the process of hydraulic fracturing.

Its ability to ionise air made it easy to detect and led to a surprising discovery: even when no radioactive source was present, detectors revealed the presence of some other radiation that was ionising the air.

Because Tc - 99m's radioactive half - life is just six hours, it must be made from Mo - 99 at or near the place where the heart patients get their stress tests.

For all of us working with electricity, radioactive waste containment, or hospitals, controlling radioactive processes and predicting their behaviors are key to making our world function safely.

Commentators are pointing out that immigration reform appears to have strong support in Virginia's seventh district, and pro-reform politicians are trying to spin the issue differently — Cantor lost touch with his constituents; Cantor failed to embrace immigration reform wholeheartedly enough — but most commentators clearly feel that Cantor's defeat makes immigration radioactive for Republicans.

By making these fragments radioactive, Lahn and Page could identify which ones stuck to the Y chromosome.

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

Food laced with radioactive substances would be fed to the subjects and an attempt made to monitor their physical condition over the ensuing years.

In 1980, Congress passed a law that made states responsible for disposal of their own wastes, but states were encouraged to form compacts to locate one low - level radioactive waste site for several states.

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.

If the original asteroids were bigger than about 20 kilometers across — and there's no reason to think they weren't — decaying radioactive elements inside them would have made the rock hotter than that.

Earnest Lawrence, the head of the Berkeley laboratory, made sure that that research programme did not dry up by sending Segre more radioactive samples — by post.

A new study shows that a surprising amount of the plant's leaked radioactive waste has made its way into groundwater underneath nearby beaches.

But as the neutrons smash through the reactor walls, they make them brittle and radioactive.

Unless a large explosion sends radioactive material high into the atmosphere, most of the fallout from Japan will not make it across the Pacific Ocean.