Sentences with phrase «of radioactive gases»

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.

* Traces of radioactive gas, emitted from magma reservoirs, may indicate when volcanoes like Mount Saint Helens are about to blow, British researchers say.

Some of Egypt's ancient monuments harbour a more insidious threat — they contain high levels of the radioactive gas radon.

In the West this means a strong outer shell capable of withstanding explosive leaks of radioactive gas or liquids.

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.

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.