Sentences with phrase «of nuclear radiation»

«Clean Coal» is NOT even remotely clean (see: mercury, acid rain, or strip - mining), and if you think nuclear power is clean: just look around at the effects of nuclear radiation, and birth defects in Iraq and Afghanistan (INCLUDING American soldiers and war veterans) from using depleted uranium munitions.

The association of nuclear radiation with uncanny danger was present already in the 1930s in science fiction.

Once a bright prospect for as a limitless energy resource, the dangers of nuclear radiation and weaponry have far outweighed the benefits of nuclear energy, with disasters like Chernobyl acting as a reminder of humanity's overzealous drive to harness immense power.

To overcome that, she created a website and wrote posts about the toll of nuclear radiation poisoning.

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«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Meanwhile, hanging out in the living room of your one - story, wood - frame house will only cut down the radiation by half, which — if you are next to a nuclear explosion — will not do much to help you.

Shortly after Trump posted the statement, which received about 700,000 interactions, store managers across the country noticed a spike in sales of potassium iodide (or KI) pills, which are often advertised as able to block radiation from nuclear fallout.

Jones said this isn't the first time in recent months that jitters over growing nuclear tensions have boosted sales of the drug, which comes in tablet and liquid form and should be taken within hours of exposure to radiation.

«Financial markets have been rattled by the growing risk posed by potential radiation leaks at the stricken nuclear power plants in Japan,» said Lee Hardman, an analyst at The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

No one asks if Cherenkov radiation is proof of djinn in a nuclear reactor.

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low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

Just imagine a world where a couple of hundred nuclear warheads have laden the atmosphere with radiation and stripped the world of oil.

«Nuclear war is rejected in Church teaching because nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.Nuclear war is rejected in Church teaching because nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.»

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

Lots of conspiracy theories about how the increase in radiation on the US west coast because of massive, continuing nuclear leakage from Fukushima is not being reported by the mainstream media.

The NRC is sending a radiation - protection specialist to New York this week to inspect the Indian Point nuclear power plant after state officials found evidence of a surge in radiation levels in groundwater there...» A little more info would be useful here.

Given the devastating effect of nuclear attacks, after a couple of dozens attack the enemy country would be decapitated, and the entire Earth would probably be subject to dangerous radiation, which would make further nuclear attacks irrelevant or undesirable, right?

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plant.

Water with a little bit of tritium in it is often released from nuclear reactors, notes Gizmodo, and tritium in general (which emits a relatively weak form of radiation) is not dangerous unless it's ingested.

Halpern says for radiation disasters, the primary concern is a small nuclear bomb, an event he says that carries a low probability of occurring, but such high impact if it did.

A three - man team from the University of Bristol have devised a semi-autonomous, drone to help monitor radiation levels after nuclear accidents.

A lightning storm can trigger an atmospheric nuclear reaction that leads to the production of antimatter and radiation, which may pose health risks

Help researchers study the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster by taking and submitting radiation readings

When the public began to question the safety of nuclear testing and of radiation emitted from televisions, the government took notice.

In a study featured in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Australian researchers demonstrate that PET scans can identify which of these prostate cancer patients would benefit from salvage radiation treatment (SRT).

Studies of atomic bomb victims, nuclear workers and medical radiation patients have allowed scientists to estimate the cancer risk for any particular radiation dose.

The researchers expect that the new equations will be a basis for formulating more reliable and efficient predictions of the usable lifetime of materials in nuclear reactors and other environments with high levels of ionizing radiation.

A single scan could diagnose the cause of foot pain better and with less radiation exposure to the patient than other methods, according to a study in the March 2015 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual «background radiation» from natural and man - made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.

The group analysed publicly available reports from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in areas such as failures of safety systems, the percentage of time that a reactor is not generating, and workers» exposure to radiation.

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

To answer the question of just how harmful leaching could be, the scientists estimated radiation exposure around the coal plants and compared it with exposure levels around boiling - water reactor and pressurized - water nuclear power plants.

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.

Help U.S. marine scientists monitor the spread of radiation across the Pacific Ocean from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

This ritual is repeated every hour at seven locations across the prefecture to track environmental radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 63 kilometers southeast of Fukushima city.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.

The ongoing leaks from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have raised concern that some workers and even the public could be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.

The Fukushima disaster also showed NRC that the physical impacts of a nuclear disaster were not constrained only to radiation exposure, he said.

«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.

The first, simply called Rosatom, reveals the location of each Russian nuclear facility as well as radiation monitors across the country that would pick up any potential leaks.

Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site

That's because different nuclear materials give off their own specific blend of gamma rays, X-rays and so on, and each type of radiation penetrates insulators with different strengths.

A series of secret nuclear disasters has spawned a unique database about the effects of radiation.

So the variation in the distribution of electrons at different depths of an insulator reveals what kind of radiation it was exposed to, explains coauthor Robert Hayes, a nuclear engineer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Hotspots of radiation from the nuclear disaster are still likely to cause localized, small increases in cancer risk, according to a new report by the World Health Organization

The impact of a dirty bomb would be far less than that of a true nuclear device, and the radiation would probably not harm many people.

By far the most rigorously researched of the Tintin stories, it features nuclear fission, the effects of gravitation in space and why meteorites make lunar craters, as well as side references in Professor Calculus's log book to the «constant of solar radiation» and the «limits of the solar spectrum in the ultraviolet».