Sentences with phrase «of radiation release»

While the probability of a nuclear power accident may be small, the human and environmental consequences of a radiation release can be catastrophic.

Human sources of radiation released into the atmosphere over the past 60 years, although serious, pale in comparison to the radionuclides already naturally present in the ocean.

Not exact matches

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.

An alternative route of abstraction, by thinking away all energy that sets up physical relations, and thinking this away by having substances too dense to release radiation, also leads to a space concept that may be approximated somewhere in nature.

Who can say what forces may be released, what radiations, what new arrangements never hitherto attempted by Nature, what formidable powers we may henceforth be able to use, for the first time in the history of the world?

And yet, exposure occurs constantly, since radiation is released regularly from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.

As a matter of regular operation, radiation is released from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.

Frackopoly describes how the fracking industry began; the technologies that make it possible; and the destruction and poisoning of clean water sources and the release of harmful radiation from deep inside shale deposits, creating what the author calls «sacrifice zones» across the American landscape.

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.

For this theory to work, the beams released by black holes would have to have strong, self - generated magnetic fields and the rotation of particles around the fields would then give off powerful bursts of gamma ray radiation.

In an ideal SRM geoengineering scenario, even as humans warm the Earth by releasing increasing amounts of heat - trapping gases, that warmth would be counterbalanced, since more heat - causing radiation would also be reflected.

Eventually it broke down into the ordinary vacuum of space as we know it, releasing tremendous amounts of matter and radiation.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

Every time a black hole «releases» a particle of Hawking radiation, it should decrease in mass.

Friction in the disc heats up the material, causing it to release vast amounts of radiation, which telescopes can detect.

The US National Toxicology Program last week released some results from a two - year study in which more than 1000 rats were exposed to differing levels of cellphone radiation for 9 hours a day, for the whole of their lives.

Some black holes do this conspicuously, releasing outbursts of gamma rays and X-rays every time they feed, while others are «closet eaters» that emit very little radiation at feeding time.

One such scenario would be a loss of water in the pool to a level that permitted fuel rods to ignite and release perilously high radiation levels.

News of multiple core meltdowns and radiation releases spurred governments to drop nuke projects like radioactive hot potatoes.

«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.

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

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

But Jorn Olsen, chair of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health says that unlike microwaves, cell phones do not release enough radiation or energy to damage DNA or genetic material, which can lead to cancer.

Cloudy, humid days reverse the cooling from both radiation and sublimation — cloud cover prevents snow from emitting energy, and condensation of water vapor on the snow releases latent heat, warming the snow.

Because of this effect, dubbed Hawking radiation, a black hole slowly evaporates, so that anything that enters is eventually released over billions or even trillions of years.

For most people, the risk of absorbing excess ionizing radiation comes mainly through breathing radon, a gas released by uranium and thorium in soils.

Using data gleaned from the Hubble telescope, researchers have calculated the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation the planets receive from their star, a Hubble press release reports.

Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors — designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests — to show that iodine - 131 is being released at daily levels 73 per cent of those seen after the 1986 disaster.

How do you figure out what powers solar flares — the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots — when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near - Earth's orbit?

At low altitudes, about half the energy of such a bomb is released in the air blast, 35 percent as heat and 15 percent as nuclear radiation.

The newly released measurements constitute a nearly continuous global record of the variability in this radiation belt for the past 16 years, including how it responds to solar storms.

The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.

The new material, made from a common plastic called polyethylene, is a thin ply riddled with nano - sized holes that allow the release of infrared radiation, water vapor (that is, sweat), and air.

For example, the hazard of increased radiation exposure from charged particles released during a large solar flare could require that flights be diverted away from a polar route.

Gorelick would also like to make sure that no dangerous levels of radiation are released as the bacteria die, noting that some buildup was seen in the kidney tissue of the mice treated in the new study.

The triple disaster of the 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radiation releases at Fukushima Dai - ichi were, and continue to be, unprecedented events for the ocean and for society.

Our finding is broadly consistent with recent estimates for placental mammals -LSB-(100), but see SM12 (101)-RSB- and thus supports the hypothesis that the K - Pg transition was associated with a rapid species radiation caused by a release of ecological niches following the environmental destruction and species extinctions linked to an asteroid impact (2, 4, 5, 102).

If so, whenever dark particles collide, they would release a burst of high - energy radiation.

But a satiated black hole effectively has zero temperature, barring a trickle of particles released by a process called Hawking radiation, meaning it could potentially act as a cold sun, says Opatrný.

On Friday at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Glasgow, U. K., Bluck will report that the most active supermassive black holes release staggering amounts of radiation during their most energetic periods, which can last hundreds of millions of years — enough, he says, «to strip apart every massive galaxy in the universe at least 25 times over.»

And whether or not the 50 tons of water dumped on reactor No. 3 was enough to temporarily cool the spent fuel pool, the efforts will need to continue to avoid a significant release of radiation.

Marine scientists have calculated that, based on all the radioactive particles released (or leaking) from Fukushima, a dose due to this most recent nuclear accident would add up to a total of roughly one microsievert (a unit of radiation exposure) of extra radiation — roughly one tenth the average daily dose most Americans experience, one fortieth the amount from a cross — North America flight and one one - hundredth the exposure from a dental x-ray.

A report released yesterday blames British pathologists «profoundly ignorant of the law» for ethical lapses in scores of research projects in which pathologists and coroners obtained and provided tissues to scientists interested in measuring radiation exposures and their impact on the body.

But the greatest damage to the complex, and the greatest release of radiation, may have been caused by explosions of hydrogen gas that built up inside some of the reactors.

The largest of these eruptions cause what is known as space weather — the radiation, energetic particles and magnetic field releases from the Sun powerful enough to cause severe effects in Earth's near environment, such as the disruption of communications, power lines and navigations systems.

They also point out that one of the most significant Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events happened in September 2017 releasing large doses of radiation that could pose significant risk to both humans and satellites.

If unchecked, a meltdown can send superheated fuel through the steel and concrete that surrounds it, damaging or destroying the reactor and releasing extreme levels of radiation into the environment.

The paper does not address what Keith Baverstock, a radiation health expert formerly at the World Health Organization and now at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, considers the most important public health question: What were the external and internal doses in the days and months after the release of the radiation?

The 11 March earthquake and tsunami damage caused extensive damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and the release of massive amounts of radiation.

The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station disaster released massive amounts of radiation, much of which drifted out to sea.