Sentences with phrase «on radiation release»

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The best similar explanation is that the atoms in the body actually came apart, releasing the radiation, which put an image on the shroud.»

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

Cloudy, humid days reverse the cooling from both radiation and sublimation — cloud cover prevents snow from emitting energy, and condensation of water vapor on the snow releases latent heat, warming the snow.

How do you figure out what powers solar flares — the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots — when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near - Earth's orbit?

In an attempt to do this, the researchers used a technique known as radioimmunotherapy in which radioisotopes (unstable elements that release radiation) mounted on antibodies (protein molecules akin to infection search - and - destroy missiles) are injected into the body.

On Friday at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Glasgow, U. K., Bluck will report that the most active supermassive black holes release staggering amounts of radiation during their most energetic periods, which can last hundreds of millions of years — enough, he says, «to strip apart every massive galaxy in the universe at least 25 times over.»

And whether or not the 50 tons of water dumped on reactor No. 3 was enough to temporarily cool the spent fuel pool, the efforts will need to continue to avoid a significant release of radiation.

Marine scientists have calculated that, based on all the radioactive particles released (or leaking) from Fukushima, a dose due to this most recent nuclear accident would add up to a total of roughly one microsievert (a unit of radiation exposure) of extra radiation — roughly one tenth the average daily dose most Americans experience, one fortieth the amount from a cross — North America flight and one one - hundredth the exposure from a dental x-ray.

A report released yesterday blames British pathologists «profoundly ignorant of the law» for ethical lapses in scores of research projects in which pathologists and coroners obtained and provided tissues to scientists interested in measuring radiation exposures and their impact on the body.

Knowing when such storms are coming helps protect astronauts as well as ground communications: Physicists estimate that a 1989 solar outburst released enough radiation to expose astronauts on the Mir space station to their yearly dose in just a few hours.

The analysis, released on 18 April, takes into account the fact that radiation levels are slowly falling — mainly due to the decay of iodine - 131, which has a half - life of 8 days.

«They are likely formed on icy grains in the disk and then released into the gas phase because of heating from stellar radiation or some other means, such as shocks,» says co-author Zhi - Yun Li of the University of Virginia.

Ana Kiess, M.D., Ph.D., received the Journal of Nuclear Medicine's Editor's Choice Award for her paper on PSMA - targeted α - particle radiopharmaceutical therapy, a new prostate cancer targeted treatment that delivers radiation - releasing alpha particles to cancer cells that have spread throughout the body.

Instead of targeting specific tumor antigens, this approach relies on endogenous antigens (including neoantigens) released during tumor lysis by treatments such as chemotherapy or local radiation.

One might expect some clathrate release in the Arctic, perhaps not enough to greatly affect global warming by itself, but add this to the increased thermal energy and methane radiation already on the increase in the Arctic and the combination increases risk.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

The group, consisting of 14 global governance experts, will release a report with actionable recommendations for policymakers on governing the solar radiation management.

The time scales involved remain miniscule on the level of an individual molecule BUT on a planetary scale they become highly significant and build up to a measurable delay between arrival of solar radiant energy and its release to space as outgoing radiation.

All Levels of Radiation Confirmed to Cause Cancer The National Academies of Science has released an over 700 - page report on the risks from ionizing radiation.

Similarly, Busby et al exclude Welsh leaukaemia data between 1974 - 81 (when there was only one incidence on the North Wales coastal strip, despite a much more lax safety regime in Sellafield during that period and consequently far greater releases of radiation into the sea), and use instead the period 1982 - 90, when there were nine.

On the 2000 meter depth graph over 2006 - 2014 of Poitou & Bréon, the yearly minima increased from 10 units to 16 units of 1022 J that is 0.41 W / m ²; but there is every year some oceanic heat storage during six months and a release of this heat the following six months: the maximum of the global outgoing longwave radiation is in July, shifted by 6 months w.r.t. the solar flux hat is maximum in January (1412 W / m ²) and minimum in July (1321 W / m ²).

In February, the National Academies of Science released two major reports on geoengineering, one on carbon dioxide removal technologies (to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and hence reduce the greenhouse effect) and the other on «albedo modification» or solar radiation management technologies (to reflect a fraction of sunlight back to space and thereby cool the planet).

Temperature on the sun doesn't fluctuate as a yo - yo; the sun is too big — heat / radiation released today, was produced in the core many, many moons ago.

The condensation releases heat and hence increase the temperatures, which subsequently has an effect on the black body radiation.

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