Sentences with phrase «of radioactive material»

The spent - fuel pools contain a large amount of radioactive material that is not contained as well as that in the reactor cores.

Both incorporate inherent safety features to prevent core overheating and the release of radioactive material.

The iodine is taken up by the active (abnormal) thyroid tissue, but not by any other tissues, resulting in a selective local accumulation of radioactive material in the abnormal tissues.

The reactor is designed to never be opened on site and thus there is little opportunity for diversion of radioactive material from operating plants.

Remote detection of radioactive materials is impossible when the measurement location is far from its source.

The pattern of prevailing winds during the accident meant that most of the radioactive materials released from the plant were blown out to sea.

The light emission from such radiation detector materials could provide a signature for the type of radioactive material present.

About half of the radioactive material leaves the body through the kidneys and bladder in urine.

The fire in the spent fuel store of reactor unit 4 has probably released the worst of the radioactive materials so far.

One pound of this radioactive material contains the same amount of energy as one million gallons of gasoline.

But because it involves the handling of radioactive materials, it is only performed at specialized veterinary centers.

Moreover, they found no evidence of any radioactive material suitable for weapons.

With the help of this newly - developed detection device, the detection of various types of radioactive materials can be done from a remote distance.

Such tests are often performed by injecting a small amount of radioactive material into the blood and tracking its path with cameras that detect radioactive decay.

Entergy Corp. said elevated levels of radioactive material found in groundwater at the 2,000 - megawatt Indian Point nuclear power facility north of New York City don't pose a threat to public safety.

From any rational perspective, the quantities of radioactive material found in the UK from Japan are not worthy of comment, except perhaps to those who take an interest in the design of incredibly sensitive radiological monitoring hardware.

She received training in the safe use of radioactive materials at the Radiation Safety Office at WSU Pullman and said her experiments involve the smallest amount of radioactivity possible to get research results for publication.

Would it matter to have a clearer view of the difference between perceived and actual hazards related to a host of issues — from genetically modified crops to the traces of radioactive material wafting from a damaged nuclear plant?

By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters)- A radiation leak that indefinitely shut down a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was likely caused by a container of radioactive materials improperly packaged with a lead - lined glove at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a state lawmaker said on Friday.

(Reuters)- A radiation leak that indefinitely shut down a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was likely caused by a container of radioactive materials improperly packaged with a lead - lined glove at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a state lawmaker said on Friday.

However, they add, testing has affected both the limestone and the underlying volcanic rock in a way which is likely to increase «the longer - term potential for leakage of radioactive material».

The prevailing winds are indeed heading east over the Pacific from Japan, but the vast majority of radioactive material will rain down into the ocean within a few hundred kilometers of the nuclear plant.

And compared to the byproducts of nuclear plants, which remain radioactive for thousands of years, the small amount of radioactive material produced in fusion reactions would remain radioactive for tens of years, Synakowski said.

Summary of Qualifications * Radiopharmacy receipt, inventory, quality control, decay measurement, calibration, patient dose administration, and safe disposal of radioactive material per departmental and NRC standards.

From my own, less than expert perspective, there is no question that forest fires will cause remobilization of the radioactive materials, as I stated in 2008.

I sometimes think that the difficulties we now face in controlling water, air, and soil pollution, and the undue dissemination of radioactive materials, are the result of a common impression that «the boundary between life and non - life has all but disappeared.

Yesterday home secretary John Reid confirmed that police were treating the death as suspicious, after discovering high quantities of the radioactive material polonium - 210 (Po - 210) in Mr Litvinenko's body.

Indian Point officials will send a camera - equipped robot into pipes beneath the nuclear power plant next week to try to find the source of radioactive material showing up in the groundwater below the plant.

A group of residents who allege the Navy and DEC have failed to adequately investigate the presence of radioactive materials in Bethpage has put the agencies on notice they intend to sue and seek the intervention of a federal court.

«They were concerned venting might allow a flow of radioactive materials into the air, and they had not yet fully evacuated the area,» explains mechanical engineer Vijay Nilekani of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), an industry group.

You inhale, inject or swallow small amounts of radioactive material chosen to illuminate a specific organ, tissue or system.

Even when a release of radioactive material reaches the environment, «it's small enough and takes so long to reach the community that people have already been evacuated or otherwise protected,» NRC's Burnell argues.

In the latter case the patient is injected with a small amount of radioactive material such as 600 MBq of technetium - 99m - MDP and then scanned with a Gamma camera, a device sensitive to the radiation emitted by the injected material.

The radiotracer combines a small amount of the radioactive material zirconium - 89 with a fragment of an antibody called a minibody.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

For example, terahertz radiation has also been proposed as a way to breakdown air in the vicinity of radioactive materials, but producing terahertz radiation requires complicated and costly equipment.

In 1957, an explosion occurred at a plutonium production plant, releasing about 80 tonnes of radioactive material.

This is a schematic of a possible setup for the detection of radioactive material inside a container.

In April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, sending clouds of radioactive material across the countryside.

This, she says, means that it might prove possible to seed nuclear waste, or a spill of radioactive material, with barium to encourage the algae to grab the strontium — easy to do, she says, because «it would only be a small amount» of barium.

If drug cartels can regularly sneak tons of narcotics into and around the country, surely terrorists can do the same with a much smaller cache of radioactive material.

In the typical scenario, a group of terrorists steal a few ounces of radioactive material like cobalt 60 from a food irradiation facility.

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.

On 6 June, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) raised its estimate of the radioactive material emitted.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.