Sentences with phrase «of radioactive metals»

Experts who reviewed the concentrations of radioactive metals found in New York's wastewater said the leftover sludge is likely to exceed the legal limits for hazardous waste and would need to be shipped to Idaho or Washington State, to some of the only landfills in the country permitted to accept it.

By measuring the decay of a radioactive metal locked into the shells and rocks, Osborne's team showed that the buried snails must have incorporated water that flowed from the volcanoes.

Not exact matches

«When a thermonuclear weapon is surrounded with with ordinary cobalt (cobalt - 59) metal,» as Russia's Status 6 is rumored to be, «the fast neutrons escaping the explosion will instantly transmute it into radioactive cobalt - 60, which would vaporize, condense, and then fall back to earth tens, hundreds, or thousands of miles from the site of the explosion.»

Park District Executive Director David Thomas said park officials had wanted to seal the contaminated dirt in metal drums and store it behind a fence guarding a portion of Reed - Keppler Park that is too radioactive for safe use.

She reckoned that a rare form of old «metal poor» star, one with one - thousandth the iron content of our own young sun, carries an internal clock, one composed of the radioactive elements uranium and thorium.

The improper disposal of a derelict gamma - ray research device at the University of Delhi has resulted in the death of a scrap - metal worker — and drawn scrutiny of how India's academic institutions handle radioactive materials.

The Bellevue, Wash., startup says it has verified the theory behind its slow - burning reactor through supercomputer simulations and now needs to build a pilot version of the reactor, to evaluate how the metal fuel casings in the core will withstand decades of radioactive bombardment.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

For every metric ton of uranium ore pulled from McArthur River, roughly one metric ton of waste rock, often radioactive and rich in toxic heavy metals, is produced — and other mines produce even more waste rock per ton of ore.

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.

Yttrium is twice as abundant as lead; all of the rare - earth metals (with the exception of radioactive promethium) are more common than silver.

The byproducts include «chunks, shards, and grains of plutonium metal,» all of it radioactive and unstable, according to a 2015 Congressional Research Service report.

This radioactive metal is sometimes used in the production of nuclear weapons as a substitute for depleted Uranium.

In addition, some studies have shown that seaweed assists the elimination of radioactive compounds and heavy metals from the body.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of our fish supply is now so heavily contaminated with industrial pollutants and toxins like mercury, PCBs, heavy metals, and radioactive poisons that I just can't recommend it any longer.

(NaturalHealth365) Today, we are mining, concentrating, nano - sizing, processing, weaponizing, and in the example of a nuclear melt - down, dispersing these radioactive heavy metals into the air, where they settle into our food chain and in our bodies.

About a dozen of the elements in this salt are radioactive, among the heavy metals present are lead, mercury, arsenic, thallium, cadmium, polonium, etc..

Its citizens are wealthy and secure thanks to the country's vast reserves of the precious metal, vibranium, which has magical, radioactive power.

Carbonadium is a stronger - than - steel radioactive metal that is able to disrupt the healing factor of mutant individuals such as Wolverine.

Economy Structure: Planets possess stores of both radioactive and metals which are vital for war efforts.

Inorganic chemicals, compounds of precious metals, rare earth metals, radioactive elements or isotopes

Researchers around the world then detected elevated levels of the metal's radioactive isotope, strontium - 90, which entered the global — and especially the American — food supply.

Coal ash, which contains radioactive material and heavy metals, including chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, is China's number one source of solid industrial waste.

The mining of metals used in electronics is spreading to countries like Malaysia and Brazil, but scientists warn of the toxic and radioactive wastes generated by the industry.

Tucked away in a sterile metal shed in the middle of Utah's West Desert, the 55 - gallon plastic drums show no hint of what lies beneath the metal lids — radioactive waste that will only get hotter...

There is no such thing as clean coal at this time, and it is doubtful that we will ever be able to fully eliminate emissions of mercury, other heavy metals, and radioactive material in the mining and burning of coal.

Groundwater can be polluted not only from the heavy metals present in mine waste, but also from the traces of radioactive uranium still left in the waste.