Sentences with phrase «of radiation levels»

Depending on what channel you dial into, you could see through the walls of the home to view its wiring or plumbing (this is called architectural anatomy); look under the house to see if it was built over an underground lake, a native burial ground or large mineral deposit; view property lines, rights of way, underground cables... you could even see a graphic representation of radiation levels within a 100 meter radius of the structure.

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

As part of the Building a Better Explainer project at N.Y.U.'s Studio 20, we decided to create a visual explainer of radiation levels, inspired by some recent presentations over at XKCD and Information is Beautiful.Both compare radiation doses from everyday activities (like eating a banana or flying across the country) to doses near the Fukushima plant, as well as other disasters like Chernobyl.

Not exact matches

One of the big advantages of the approach that this paper uses is that, to decide on a strategy, evacuation officials need to consider only the radiation levels near shelters and along evacuation routes — the overall pattern of the radioactive death - cloud does not factor into the models.

Its guidelines set maximum radiation exposure levels based on the amount of heat emitted by mobile phones.

Male rats developed heart tumors when exposed to high levels of a type of radiation used by the wireless telephone industry, according to the draft studies released Friday.

The reason: «We don't know what levels of cosmic radiation are safe for every person.»

Researchers blasted rats with full - body doses of RF radiation (mostly at higher levels than those associated with cell phones) from the time they were born until they were two years old for nine hours a day.

«If people understand what trace levels of radiation mean, that understanding may help prevent panic.»

I could sit here and point out how stupid you are for believing in science, a group of people that once believed the Earth was flat as early as a few hundred years ago, or believed that bleeding someone out was the best way to cure the flu... or as early as the 40's and 50's that it was okay for people to drink water with high levels of radiation because it would give you energy and cure what ails ya.

We observe that at the lowest level of the evolutionary process, time is contingent in the sense that electronic and atomic radiations are short - lived, measured in millionths of a second; the movement is chaotic, diffused, haphazard, indeterminate as shown in the cloud chamber or the Brownian movement of molecules; the time is transient because entropy takes over; the movements are lost instead of being collected in the thing and perfective of the thing.

In fact, disparity remains relatively low throughout the Cambrian, with modern levels of disparity only attained after the early Ordovician radiation.

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.

The Department of Energy is confident that we either have the technology now or soon will have it to keep escaping radiation to a level «as low as is reasonably achievable.»

In fact, an important study in 1996 confirmed that children are exposed to higher levels of radiation from devices than adults.

Studies have found that babies born to women in Australia who were exposed to higher levels of UV radiation during their first trimesters had higher rates of multiple sclerosis.

Since the results for alcohol, Hispanic heritage, and smoking for white Americans agree well with the literature [Trapido et al., 1995; Thun et al., 2002], they provide a high level of confidence in the approach and its results for UVB radiation.

Most routine X-rays can be put off until after you give birth, but if you have a serious dental problem that needs immediate attention, it's very unlikely that a low level of radiation would cause a problem for your baby as long as your dentist takes the appropriate precautions, according to the American Pregnancy Association.

I thought all cell phones were the same, but looking out for the SAR allows you to choose a phone with lower levels of radiation!

This amount of radiation is absolutely deadly to any one exposed for any length of time — You are dead within I hour with this level of exposure, This latest development has scuttled TEPCO's plans to decommission what's left of that exploded reactor because no one can be near enough to it to disassemble the wreckage.

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.

Even radiation levels below those predicted for the end of the Permian period damage trees» abilities to make seeds, researchers report...

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

Modifying the vegetation cover alters the surface properties — such as the amount of heat dissipated by water evaporation and the level of radiation reflected back into space — which has a knock - on effect on local surface temperature.

For 558 days, the seeds were exposed to high levels of UV light, cosmic radiation, and extreme temperature fluctuations — conditions that are lethal to most forms of life.

«Despite stronger solar wind and EUV - radiation levels under the early Sun, ion escape can not explain more than 0.006 bar of atmospheric pressure lost over the course of 3.9 billion years,» says Robin Ramstad.

But scientists still don't know how the human body will react to sustained low - level doses of radiation inherent in space travel.

Radionuclide levels in fish off Fukushima are highly variable but remain elevated, indicating a continuing source of radiation.

In his research, Robin Ramstad has combined and compared measurements of the ion escape under varying solar wind conditions and levels of ionizing solar radiation, so - called extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation.

The crops were harvested on 16 May, and contained low levels of radiation — around 9 becquerels per kilogram (Bq kg - 1; wet weight), much lower than the 500 Bq kg - 1 safety limit for human consumption.

Furthermore, most of the radiation had accumulated on the leaves and could be washed off, suggesting that the plants were not absorbing dangerous levels of radioisotopes directly from the soil.

Miscarriage occurred in 10.4 percent of the women with the lowest measured exposure level (1st quartile) of magnetic field non-ionizing radiation on a typical day, and in 24.2 percent of the women with the higher measured exposure level (2nd, 3rd and 4th quartiles), a nearly three times higher relative risk.

«Herman Suit drove it and took it to the next level, and Goitein was the father of 3 - D radiation planning.

On July 4, the Juno Spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter — a planet scientists still know very little about, which generates extreme levels of radiation.

A new study has identified a group of molecules in prostate - cancer cells that doctors might one day use to distinguish which patients should be treated with radiation therapy if rising PSA levels indicate their cancer has recurred after surgical removal of the prostate.

Now a team from Harvard Medical School, using electron cryomicroscopy (imaging frozen specimens to reduce damage from electron radiation), has for the first time revealed the structure of a VSV protein at the atomic level.

Better understanding of why gallium arsenide - and gallium nitride - based HEMTs are more tolerant of radiation could ultimately accelerate innovative and bolster projects where radiation levels prove to be barriers.

But up to 30 to 40 percent of these patients experience rising PSA levels after surgery, and these patients are often treated using radiation therapy.

Without the proper technology, the radiation levels of Jupiter could destroy the sensitive electronics in the satellite upon approaching the planet.

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.

Articles made comparisons to mundane, low - level forms of radiation; defined the risks as unknowable, given the lack of long - term studies; and largely excluded concerns expressed by experts and residents who challenged the dominant narrative.

This could reduce the time taken for stored waste's radiation levels to decay to safe levels from hundreds of thousands to a few hundred years.

The monkeys were given lethal doses of 5.8, 6.5 or 7.2 grays of whole - body radiation, similar to levels inhaled by Fukushima workers (all the animals received «lethal» doses, but only some resulted in death).

He also confirmed that, as a general rule, men produce approximately 50 per cent X-bearing and 50 per cent Y - bearing sperm, with one possible exception: the ratio of male and female sperm may be skewed in men exposed to high levels of hormone - disrupting chemicals or radiation.

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.

The Sun's activity — including changes in the number of sunspots, levels of radiation and ejection of material - varies on an eleven - year cycle, driven by changes in its magnetic field.

Next summer's weather bulletins in Britain might also include forecasts of the levels of harmful solar radiation expected during the day.

As a result, several thousand of Fukushima's 2 million residents have been thrust into the middle of a vigorous scientific debate about the health effects of long - term exposure to low levels of radiation.

But the health effects of chronic low - level radiation exposure over years or decades are far from clear.

Since then, radiation levels have ebbed as short - lived radionuclides, such as iodine - 131 with a half - life of 8 days, decay into stable isotopes.