Sentences with phrase «on radioactive»

And dangerous means: experiments on radioactive equipment that might contain a combustible mix of hydrogen and oxygen and explode as a result of the experiment.

On the radioactive plains of a terraformed Mars, cut off from Earth, power lies in the hands of the huge corporations who control the water supply.

Back in 1968, when I was seven years old, the same age my daughter is now, a big study on radioactive emissions from cathode ray tubes had just come out, and so our new color Philco had become the enemy.

As the sun sets on this radioactive ghost town, inhuman cries cut through the night air.

After the Chernobyl disaster took place, many people in the surrounding areas became susceptible to radiation poisoning from eating foods grown on the radioactive soil.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

Findings from a new study are based on radioactive dating of rocks sandwiching the earliest fossils of those predecessors, suggests that paleontologists have long misjudged the overall pace of dinosaur evolution.

Our next step will be to see what impact they have on radioactive materials.

The fascinating biological processes that they use to support life under such extreme conditions are being studied by the Manchester group, as well as the stabilizing effects of these humble bacteria on radioactive waste.

Ten Russian inventors are filing patent applications in the West which give an alarming insight into the Eastern bloc's past policy on radioactive waste disposal.

I put together a comprehensive article on radioactive waste and selected and wrote several news briefs for the academies» science news page.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

Since then, many other possible crucibles have been identified: deep underground, in the open ocean, by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, on a radioactive beach and on the surface of a lump of clay.

The appendices provide information on radioactive drugs and tests, and over-the-counter drugs.

The appendices are full of information on radioactive drugs and tests, over-the-counter drugs, and much more.

It shows a correlation to the sun's activity having an unexpected but predictable effect on radioactive isotopes.

He stands on the shoulders of giants to invent (not discover, big diff) what is essentially a doo dad that depends on radioactive decay rates, particle physics etc...

Not exact matches

The experimental device shot a beam of X-rays at its infinitesimal target, which in turn yielded a pattern on some photographic film resting behind it as the radioactive waves diffracted off of the molecule's atoms and etched a smudgy outline of its shape.

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Wu Tang could only have happened on Staten Island, just like Godzilla could only have appeared on a remote radioactive island in Japan.

Together, the explosions released 400 times as much radioactive fallout as the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

The most popular (and likely apocryphal) version of events then goes something like this: One soldier and two plant workers, all volunteers, bravely strapped on wetsuits and clamored into the radioactive water.

One of the big advantages of the approach that this paper uses is that, to decide on a strategy, evacuation officials need to consider only the radiation levels near shelters and along evacuation routes — the overall pattern of the radioactive death - cloud does not factor into the models.

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

Nuclear explosions produce radioactive substances that are rare in nature — like carbon - 14, a radioactive form of the carbon atom that forms the chemical basis of all life on earth.

So an inspector came out to the phony, empty office, but instead of turning the group down for having no security in place, or arousing suspicion about the obvious potential that the business was a shell company, he issued a license on the spot for a small amount of radioactive material.

«Spider - Man: Homecoming» leaves out the radioactive spider bite, the death of Parker's uncle Ben, and focuses heavily on the difficulty that comes with trying to build confidence while still in high school, and is all the better for it.

«Homecoming» wastes no time on rehashing the tired story of a radioactive bite which gives Peter his powers or dwelling on how his Uncle Ben gets killed.

No matter where you live on Earth, you most likely interact with radioactive materials every day.

The bumbling Peter Parker is still getting picked on in school and still gets bitten by a radioactive spider, but the origin story is a little different and a lot more important.

At the end of September, the European Commission approved a marketing application for Lutathera, a radioactive molecule that targets specific receptors found on the surface of neuroendocrine tumor cells.

We still do not have any new information from a biological / scientific reaction... we must appeal on the science time to billions of years (radioactive isotopes), that we can not measure.

Just so, on the inorganic level, every element in the periodic scale has its special characteristics, and some, like the radioactive substances, have qualities of far - reaching significance in certain respects.

The ones still living would drop nukes on you, or overfly you with crop dusters loaded with radioactive liquids; other than that, and the deaths of innocent people who happen to live there, great plan.

Eugene Rabinowitch comments on Bridgman's article: «Does he expect to find satisfaction, as he contemplates the radioactive ruins of Harvard Yard, in the thought that he, at least; had resisted all attempts to saddle him with responsibility that was not his?»

They have difficulty in understanding why experts disagree, whether it be on the safety of particular procedures for disposing of radioactive wastes or on the chance of a herbicide producing deformities in new - born babies.

Bobby when I met my husband he was going into trident Missle fire control computers on trident submarines and trident Back Fits He worked on Rockets that had the potential to reduce 8 different targets over 4000 miles away into radioactive holes in the ground with each rocket.

A ductogram, in which a catheter is inserted into a lactation duct through the nipple to either inject radioactive dye that can be detected on x-ray or insert a miniature camera to visualize the internal duct walls, does not affect milk production or safety since there are no incisions or tissue removal and the radioactive dye is not absorbed into either the mother's or the baby's tissue (see below).

We do not want babies to get radioactivity, but we rarely hesitate to do radioactive scans on them.

A number of medications should be avoided while breastfeeding, including drugs prescribed to kill cancer cells, radioactive drugs and illicit drugs, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics» Committee on Drugs.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

We may consider stopping breastfeeding only if a mother has cancer, or is so seriously ill that it is physically impossible for her to breastfeed; if she is on treatment with radioactive compounds or is receiving anti-cancer drugs.

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

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.»

However, the government is taking on the liabilities for potential accidents and, crucially, the disposal of radioactive waste should the companies go bust.

Plans to bury Britain's radioactive waste deep underground should be acted on immediately without the need for further research, the Royal Society has said.

The Environmental Protection Agency hosted a public hearing on plans to remove radioactive waste in Queens.