Sentences with phrase «of radioactive particles»

The mix of radioactive particles released into the atmosphere would vary with the length of time expired since the fuel units were moved from reactors to the pools.

The estimate of 11,000 fatal cancers also does not include internal radiation exposure caused by the breathing in or swallowing of radioactive particles.

At the time of the 1986 explosion that released massive amounts of radioactive particles into the air, Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.

Taking samples of such speleothems from six caves, the researchers then reconstructed the last roughly 500,000 years of climate via the decay of radioactive particles in the stone.

On 6 April a tank exploded at a reprocessing plant at Tomsk, sending a cloud of radioactive particles into the air (This Week, 17 April).

Then I remembered seeing a science experiment at my high school in Elsinore, in which our teacher showed us what is called a cloud chamber, and seeing tracks of radioactive particles, which look like small droplets.

Scientific analyses are beginning to unravel the biological consequences of the radioactive particles released during the Fukushima meltdowns.

• Wearing masks and respirators prevent the ingestion of radioactive particles.

• Most of the radioactive particles are expected to fall out over the western Pacific Ocean.

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine released substantial quantities of radioactive particles, especially caesium - 137 (137Cs).

That temperature is maintained by the decay of radioactive particles located within the Earth's core.

Hidden beliefs So we want to know what is the change in isotopes over time due to the emission of radioactive particles.

It's been 30 years since the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine in which a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed a slew of radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

The scientists brought their 1.55 metre cores to the surface in 1993, but it has taken another two decades for laboratory techniques to detect and interpret the significance of radioactive particle samples in the rock that could only have come from outer space — which is why scientists think the bedrock must have been exposed, possibly more than once.

A third type of imaging technology is the Single - photon emission computed tomography, (aka SPECT), which is a type of nuclear imaging and involves the injection of radioactive particles into the blood.