Sentences with phrase «more radioactive material»

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

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.

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.

«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.

«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.

This is potentially more worrying than the venting of contaminated gases from reactors 1, 2 and 3, as the fire released radioactive material straight into the atmosphere.

What's more, even the neutrinos being produced in the interior of the earth because some radioactive material is in there, and that's producing heat that's heating the interior of our planet.

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.

Chernobyl was directly responsible for at least 56 deaths and as many as 4,000 more, according to the World Health Organization, though other estimates vary, and spread radioactive material as far as the U.K. Three Mile Island has never been conclusively linked to any deaths or health effects, though some individuals may have received radiation doses of as high as 100 millirems.

The radioactive cloud was too thin to be dangerous, containing no more than a few grams of material, but its origin posed an outsize mystery.

'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.

The search for more clues about how she might have become exposed to highly radioactive material, leads to her job at Northmoor Corporation which was secretly involved in some shady nuclear defense contracts with the U.S. government.

A more realistic image is terrorists planning to explode a «dirty» bomb, that is, an ordinary bomb that scatters radioactive materials around a neighborhood.

By the way, my arguments assume that tokamak physics and technology works well and is reasonably simple, meaning that not many more components will have to be added to the system to allow it to operate on a steady basis for very long periods of time between the long shutdowns needed to change out radiation - damaged, radioactive materials.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

All I am saying is it is possible to get rid of radioactive material - it's more doable than getting rid of the germs.

Their approach involves converting radioactive material into short - lived nuclides by absorbing surplus neutrons... Read more →

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.