Sentences with phrase «of radiation shielding»

Interviewed and trained support persons for creation of a radiation shielding plan review department.

The camera head includes a 58 degree FOV lens, a CCD detector with integral filter, and approximately 2 kilograms of radiation shielding.

If deemed necessary, countermeasures for immunity could include new types of radiation shielding, nutritional supplementation, pharmaceuticals and more.

«Current levels of radiation shielding would, at best, modestly decrease the exposure risks.»

Not exact matches

Radiation shielding to minimize dangerous solar and cosmic radiation that are far less of an issue within the protective boundaries of Earth's magnetic field.

The discovery of the new radiation shielding protein reveals another trick these tough animals have up their sleeve.

Besides cars, the poorest shelters are made of wood, plaster, and other materials that don't shield against much radiation — about 20 % of houses fall into this category.

There was some form of canopy made of of a water vapor which shielded everything from the suns harmful types of radiation.

And if the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere were thinner it would be ineffective in shielding ultraviolet radiation and life would not be possible.

80 keV (125 times less than permitted) With additional safety aspects we furthermore guarantee the absolutely safe use of our X-ray systems in the inspection of products in the food sector: - We only use low - energy, soft X-rays - X-ray voltage and current are individually adapted for every product - The X-ray tube is hermetically shielded - All the radiation protection covers are monitored by safety switches - X-rays can only be turned on if the system functions perfectly

Stainless steel fibers & cotton - polyester blended fabric with electromagnetic shielding performance, reduces the risk of everyday radiation.

Earlier this year, we saw that Belly Armor — the definitive resource for expecting mothers and families to protect their children against the harmful effects of everyday radiation — launched a new line of infant hats with radiation shielding fabric.

«Our infrared shielding coating, with 10 - nanometer antimony - doped tin oxide nanoparticles, blocks more than 90 per cent of near - infrared radiation, while transmitting more than 80 per cent of visible light,» says Huang.

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

The heart of the experiment is the enormous detector, which is shielded by three - foot - thick concrete walls that serve as a radiation shield.

Shielding can't entirely solve the radiation exposure problem in deep space, but there are clear differences in effectiveness of different materials.»

Earth's magnetosphere extends over a radius of a million kilometers, which acts as the first line of defence, shielding us from the continuous flow of solar and galactic cosmic rays, thus protecting life on our planet from these high intensity energetic radiations.

When astronauts are outside of Earth's magnetic field, spaceships provide only limited shielding from radiation exposure, explains study leader Robert D. Hienz, Ph.D., an associate professor of behavioral biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A large shield blocks out solar radiation, and the telescope orbits millions of miles from Earth's heat.

Asteroids also contain an abundance of water, which, aside from serving as hydration during space travel, could be used as a shield to protect spaceships from the sun's radiation or to produce hydrogen - and oxygen - based rocket fuels.

The crew will need a module that will keep them alive for the duration of the trip, including all their food, radiation shielding, and a separate pod to protect them during the high - speed re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

They had succeeded in cloaking a small cylindrical object — shielding it not from visible light but from microwaves, a form of electromagnetic radiation with a substantially longer wavelength, which makes the cloaking effect considerably easier to achieve.

MakerBot has also supplied the Feinstein Institute with early samples of its just - announced MakerBot PLA Composite Filaments in Limestone (calcium carbonate) and Iron, which will be available commercially later this year, so the Feinstein Institute can start investigating how to engineer other kinds of tissue, like bone or 3D print custom - made shields for cancer and radiation treatment.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

In one of the two species tested, 68 % of specimens that were shielded from higher - energy radiation from the Sun were revived within 30 minutes of being rehydrated.

These are fast - moving knots of bright gas that seem to be shielded somehow from the harsh radiation of a nebula's dying star.

However, Sagan and Christopher Chyba believe organic compounds, formed at high altitudes by the action of solar ultraviolet radiation on methane and ammonia can provide an ultraviolet «shield» to protect the methane and ammonia in the lower atmosphere.

While Juno is replete with special radiation - hardened electrical wiring and shielding surrounding its myriad of sensors, the highest profile piece of armor Juno carries is a first - of - its - kind titanium vault, which contains the spacecraft's flight computer and the electronic hearts of many of its science instruments.

Measurements of radiation reaching the shielded interior of the spacecraft that carried Curiosity to Mars indicate that an astronaut on a yearlong round - trip would be exposed to around two - thirds of...

When the spacecraft reached orbit, it opened the experiment's door and exposed one group of water bears to the vacuum of space, while shielding them from all radiation.

The space agency says the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is designing the craft, dubbed Solar Probe + (Solar Probe Plus), which will wield a carbon - composite heat shield to survive the intense 2,550 - degree Fahrenheit (1,400 - degree Celsius) temperatures and radiation that will blast it as it passes within 4.5 million miles (7.2 million kilometers) of the sun.

Stacks of ultra-cooled germanium detector «crystals» — about the size and shape of hockeypucks — sit in the old mine, shielded from cosmic radiation by about half a mileof Earth.

Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.

«Given that this technique helps to shield the heart during radiation treatment for breast cancer,» said Rani Anne, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University and senior author on the study, «we routinely offer breast cancer treatment with the breath hold technique at Jefferson.»

Studies have shown that the risk of heart disease is higher in this group of women after radiation treatment because it can be difficult to ensure that a sufficient dose of radiation is delivered to the left breast while adequately shielding the heart from exposure.

The detector's location at Sanford Lab beneath a mile of rock helps to shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that would interfere with a dark matter signal.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating radiation, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

Previous research has suggested that Earth's protective magnetic field would be weaker across such periods of frequent reversal, compromising its ability to shield life from harmful solar radiation and cosmic rays.

The detectors are shielded from contaminating radiation by several layers of insulation.

Earth's inhabitants are largely protected from cosmic radiation by the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field, but long - term residents of the moon would be exposed to potential cellular and genetic damage without proper shielding.

Earth's atmosphere shields us from most of this radiation, but on the moon, these particles — ions and electrons — slam directly into the surface.

Pigmented cells of the skin are crucial as a protective shield against UV - radiation.

Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, and colleagues have now shown how such magnetic fields might work, which could help spaceship builders devise magnetic shielding to protect astronauts from harmful radiation.

In the space outside of Earth's magnetic shielding, astronauts will be vulnerable to the Sun's periodic belches of plasma and high - energy radiation.

The discovery is of course troubling to astronauts; somehow the human body will have to be shielded from this radiation, even on a rapid transit through the region.

Spent fuel assemblies that have been removed relatively recently from reactors are kept in deep pools of water to cool them and shield the radiation they emit.

As originally proposed, Junocam was to be a copy of the MSL MARDI instrument with additional radiation shielding and a «pushframe» color filter array in place of the «Bayer pattern» filters of MARDI.

The underground site would shield the detector from microwaves in the background cosmic radiation, which would normally impede the detection of solar neutrinos.

And because the surrounding rock is also a source of radiation, the germanium detectors will be placed in cryostats made of ultra-pure copper that, in turn, will be inside a copper shield, inside a lead igloo.

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR requires protection from all possible sources of radiation, so it's underground to shield it from cosmic radiation.