Radon is known to be the second leading cause of cancer in the United States, and testing is the only way to measure the levels
of the radioactive gas in a given area.
In the West this means a strong outer shell capable of withstanding explosive leaks
of radioactive gas or liquids.
Some of Egypt's ancient monuments harbour a more insidious threat — they contain high levels
of the radioactive gas radon.
* Traces
of radioactive gas, emitted from magma reservoirs, may indicate when volcanoes like Mount Saint Helens are about to blow, British researchers say.
In the unlikely event that an overheating core causes a reactor breach, the pressure could potentially cause an explosive venting
of radioactive gases into the environment.
Not exact matches
Each
gas drilling well requires 5 acres
of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons
of water mixed with 50,000 gallons
of hundreds
of different chemicals — many
of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web
of miles
of pipeline that is soon thick coated with
radioactive radium when 60 %
of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as
gas waste «brine.»
Regardless
of the ability
of the vents to function appropriately, one clear difference exists between the operation
of such boiling - water reactors in the U.S. versus those in Japan — in the U.S., reactor operators have the authority to vent
radioactive steam or hydrogen
gas as conditions warrant.
Philip Froelich
of Florida State University in Tallahassee and colleagues recorded air circulation in the Hollow Ridge cave near Marianna by measuring airborne radon, a naturally occurring
radioactive gas.
Using elaborate computer simulations, a team
of researchers from RIKEN in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) were able to explain the recently measured spatial distributions
of radioactive titanium and nickel in Cassiopeia A, a roughly 340 year old
gas remnant
of a nearby supernova.
«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and
gas wells also contains high levels
of radium, which is a
radioactive element.
Wastewater from natural
gas drilling in New York State is
radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands
of times the limit safe for people to drink
In 1899 Ernest Rutherford noticed that half
of the atoms in a sample
of radioactive radon
gas disappeared with each passing minute.
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.
«The result could be a runaway oxidation reaction» and the release
of radioactive fission
gases» and some
of the
radioactive fuel material.
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.
Nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution, with virtually limitless supplies
of fuel, no greenhouse
gases, and little
radioactive waste.
The
radioactive decay
of radon
gas produces alpha particles (consisting
of two protons and two neutrons, an alpha particle is just the bare nucleus
of a helium atom), beta particles (which are actually fast - moving electrons), and gamma rays (very energetic photons).
A Duke University study
of treated oil and
gas wastewater finds that current water quality regulations are inadequate to prevent accumulation
of radioactive material in surface waters.
The returning mixture, which contains
radioactive materials and some
of the natural
gas from the geological formation, is supposed to be captured.
The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement
of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing
gases such as
radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.
2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form
of nuclear energy so clean it generates no
radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart
of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price
of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost
of electricity from natural
gas.
Cauldrons
of highly
radioactive soup bump and burp, belching flammable
gases.
With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile
of an oil and
gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination
of surface and groundwater by trace metals,
radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.
Formaggio and former postdoc Benjamin Monreal, now an assistant professor
of physics at UCSB, reasoned that if they could tune into this baseline frequency, they could catch electrons as they shot out
of a decaying
radioactive gas, and measure their energy in a magnetic field.
Scientists agree that tritium, a
radioactive isotope
of hydrogen, is key to obtaining a precise measurement: As a
gas, tritium decays at such a rate that scientists can relatively easily observe its electron byproducts.
By using PET and
radioactive tracers, the researchers can show the flow
of liquid or
gas in the rock.
All this would be
of substantially less concern if New York were like most
of the other states that produce some
radioactive waste during natural
gas drilling.
The team dated the water using the
radioactive decay
of elements in the rocks to inert
gases.
study identifies 13 clouds in the molecular
gas complex associated with these stars, with a total
of 42610 solar masses in
radioactive carbon monoxide (13CO).
These bed filters and hydrous manganese oxide technologies are expected to reduce the naturally occurring
radioactive materials generated during the removal
of radioactivity by 90 %, as well as cutting treatment costs and greenhouse
gas emissions.
The new instrument, containing 3.5 tons
of ultra-pure noble
gas Xenon cooled to nearly -140 degrees Fahrenheit to make it liquid, is installed inside a 10 - meter - wide water shield to protect it from
radioactive background radiation.
The slow upward flow
of water insures that the short lived
radioactive gases produced by fission die off before the reactor coolant reaches the above - ground portion
of the plant (another bonus
of gravity driven flow!).
Although these
gases can come in
radioactive varieties, they are part
of a group
of chemically inert elements called «noble
gases.»
In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount
of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition
of volcanic and lighter
gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).
The danger comes when this naturally occurring
radioactive gas gets trapped and concentrated, as can happen in mines and in the lower floors
of some homes.
Radon is a
radioactive, odorless, colorless
gas that comes out
of the ground in areas that have high levels
of decaying uranium.
It is based on the fact that some
of the
radioactive isotope
of Potassium, Potassium - 40 (K - 40), decays to the
gas Argon as Argon - 40 (Ar - 40).
No greenhouse
gases, no wealth transfers to despotic dictators, 6000 years
of fuel ready to be used, and useful
radioactive byproducts such as cesium to kill e-coli bacteria poisoning meats, spinach, etc..
Gas industry representatives purportedly took advantage
of this inside information by lobbying to minimize reporting requirements designed to regulate toxic and
radioactive runoff from drilling sites.
«The
radioactive levels at the Marcellus shale formation are off the charts,» he says, referring to the
gas - rich layer that underlies much
of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Part
of this heat is generated by the natural decay
of radioactive element in the rocks, and part
of the heat is left over from the formation
of the Earth five billion years ago — when gravity pulled together bits
of gas and dust to form our planet.
400 drums
of low - level waste were also dislodged in a store, with the lids
of around 40 becoming open to the air, with it seems some
radioactive gases being ventilated.
(e.g., tritium, the
radioactive isotope
of hydrogen, and its decay product, the noble
gas isotope 3He).
Nuclear energy is less polluting than
gas from a climate - changing perspective, but it is costly and viewed skeptically in the United States because
of the dangers
of disposing
of radioactive waste.
Shaft [underground] mines also have radon, the
radioactive gas, in them because radon is a decay product
of uranium.
Place a moon - like solid object (no or infinitesimal amounts
of liquids and
gases) with a small internal
radioactive - decay source
of thermal energy in space isolated from all other matter.
But Kyllo was not followed by the Supreme Court
of Canada in R v Tessling, [2004] 3 SCR 432 where Justice Ian Binnie, writing for a unanimous court, at para. 51, agreed with Justice John Paul Stevens, speaking for the minority in Kyllo, that, ``...» public officials should not have to avert their senses or their equipment from detecting emissions in the public domain such as excessive heat, traces
of smoke, suspicious odors, odorless
gasses, airborne particulars, or
radioactive emissions, any
of which could identify hazards to the community.»
After cigarette smoking, the
radioactive gas — called radon — is the second leading cause
of lung cancer deaths in the U.S., claiming the lives
of about 21,000 people each year.
The
radioactive gas that results from the breakdown
of uranium in rock, soil or water, radon can enter the home in countless ways.
Radon is a naturally occurring odorless, tasteless, and colorless
radioactive gas produced by the breakdown
of radium in soil, rock, and water.