Sentences with phrase «more radioactive»

Accordingly, we should not construct any additional nuclear reactors until and unless we devise a way to render the spent fuel therefrom harmless = not be more radioactive than the world Mother Nature has created in which we live.

Again: 4 Billion years ago, the Earth was a lot more radioactive than it is today.

Toys or blankets from home are also not permitted because they would become contaminated and create more radioactive waste to be disposed of.

This is why teacher reform is now more radioactive than vouchers: Rather than taking a long, winding road, it attacks the core problem head - on.

That way we can better understand our environment, and protect people from areas that might be more radioactive than others.

Spinach, which had some of the highest detected radiation levels, has large leaves that collect more radioactive dust than nonleafy vegetables.

«We're going to take plutonium oxide that's a powder, turn it into fuel form, put it in the reactor, make it more radioactive, and then put that into the ground,» Loewen admits, which would also render it unfit for nuclear weapons.

• Water leaking from at least one of the reactors shows high levels of radioactivity, suggesting a potential core breach that could make the plant even more radioactive.

Education needs more radioactive spiders.

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.

The two started examining minerals containing uranium and pitchblende, a uranium - rich ore, and realized the latter was four times more radioactive than pure uranium.

«It would be ideal to scrub more radioactive species other than iodine — you would want to scrub all of the radioactive material in one go,» said Ke.

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

One thing we did was expand on our first find and look at more radioactive samples.

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

Not exact matches

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

«You actually get more exposure from the Earth's natural radioactive material than from galactic cosmic rays.»

The bumbling Peter Parker is still getting picked on in school and still gets bitten by a radioactive spider, but the origin story is a little different and a lot more important.

Investors felt the biggest shock waves when Japan's prime minister announced that radioactive material had leaked from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima province and that more leaks were possible.

Much more care needs to be taken in choosing locations for deep - mine repositories for high - level radioactive waste.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

We need to say to ourselves cold - bloodedly that if we do not rise to the demand of our time for a wider justice and a more stable world order, there is the real possibility that what will be left of humanity will be a few crazed survivors stumbling and mumbling about in the radioactive ruins left by the atomic war.

Our radioactive garbage will remain hazardous for 10,000 years or more; what is our responsibility to people as yet unborn?

The appendices are full of information on radioactive drugs and tests, over-the-counter drugs, and much more.

At Floating Hospital, we use ultrasound and radioactive scanning to learn more about your child's nodule and assess the risk of malignancy.

Learn more and view radioactive plume maps

The presence of radioactive waste in Niagara County may be more widespread than originally thought.

He also promised to secure more federal funding to clean up this and other radioactive sites.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said there are more than 60 identified radioactive hot spots in Western New York.

This investigation is examining multiple unplanned shutdowns, a transformer fire that triggered the declaration of an unusual event level emergency, and most recently, a radioactive tritium leak that has caused groundwater radioactivity levels to rise more than 65,000 percent.

I applaud the efforts of Residents for the Preservation of Lowman and Chemung and People for a Healthy Environment, Inc. to bring the issue of radioactive drilling wastes in the Chemung County landfill to the attention of the public, the DEC and the Chemung County legislature, which is currently considering a sizeable expansion of the Chemung County landfill to allow the landfill to take more drilling cuttings.

The problem in eliminating these inequities is some taxpayers will end up paying more and some less down the line — a radioactive equation for most politicians, says Carol Kellerman, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a good government group that's been seeking reform for years.

Wu was the first to verify — and later refine — Enrico Fermi's theory of radioactive beta - decay, which describes how some unstable atoms emit radiation when transforming into more stable atoms.

Gravekamp thinks the radioactive bacteria affected metastatic tumours most because cells there were still rapidly multiplying, leaving their chromosomes more open to damage than those in healthy tissues or in the original tumour.

As Japanese officials caution the Fukushima region about low levels of radioactive elements in soil and plants, researchers develop devices to more easily measure exposure levels

RADIOACTIVE CIGS The article «Radioactive Smoke,» by Brianna Rego, shed more light on cigarette manufacturers and their not so ethical practices.

Although the water is natural, it can be several orders of magnitude more saline than seawater and is often laced with naturally occurring radioactive material.

In the United States at the Nevada test site, radioactive elements moved 1.3 kilometers from their source in just 30 years: significantly more than what was predicted from theoretical calculations.

Researchers at Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that radioactive matter migrates more quickly in carbonate bedrock formations once it has leaked from a tank from near surface waste sites and geological repositories.

What's more, fewer neutrons would be produced, reducing the number of radioactive isotopes formed.

Despite the intrigue surrounding Litvinenko's death, the poison that killed him, a rare radioactive isotope called polonium 210, is far more widespread than many of us realize: people worldwide smoke almost six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount of polonium 210 to the lungs.

Pluto's geological activity is driven both by heat leaking from radioactive elements in its interior — a remnant of its birth more than 4 billion years ago — and by the volatile compounds that flit between its surface and its atmosphere.

«The asymmetry of the radioactive ejecta is more pronounced the larger the neutron star kick is,» he adds.

Studying such compounds in the lab also helps computational researchers to improve their predictions about the more highly radioactive elements present in nuclear waste that are even more difficult to study.

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.

Sensing they were onto something big, Fischbach and Jenkins scoured the literature and found more reports of radioactive decay enigmatically slowing down and speeding up, results so contrary to expectation that they, too, had largely been tossed into the dust bin of odd results and equipment error.

But disposing of radioactive fallout that clings to walls, seeps into crevices, and coats rescue vehicles is an altogether more vexing problem.

The Voyagers are now so far away that the signals from their 23 - watt radio transmitters, powered by a radioactive generator, take more than 12 hours to reach Earth.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

At present, TEPCO is storing more than 300,000 tons of radioactive water on the site of the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi plant.