Sentences with phrase «produces radioactivity»

This process doesn't produce the radioactivity and nuclear waste, as would be found in nuclear power stations, as this process if different, and known as nuclear fission.

Not exact matches

Even the so - called «clean» H - bombs, in addition to the immediate casualties they would create, produce appreciable quantities of radioactivity.

By tracking geoneutrinos produced by the decay of uranium - 238 and thorium - 232 in Earth's interior, the detector, called Kamland, has provided the first direct measurement of the amount of terrestrial heat caused by radioactivity.

Segre's work in Rome, and later in Sicily, concerned radioactivity, and especially the «artificial» radioactivity produced by bombarding different substances with neutrons.

The element later turned up in uranium ore deposits, where natural radioactivity can produce traces of plutonium.

Another radioactive gas, krypton, was injected to help scientists distinguish between signals produced by ambient radioactivity and a potential dark matter signal.

The radioactivity in the Earth produces antineutrinos which are constantly streaming up, and I actually, kind of, realized that if we can measure those antineutrinos we could measure the radioactivity in the Earth.

The current evolutionary theory for earth's radioactivity, first proposed in 1952, has the big bang producing only hydrogen, helium, and a trace of lithium.

Made less than a decade after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, the movie is obsessed with issues such as radioactivity (the Godzilla monster itself is radioactive) and the morality of producing super-weapons (one is finally used to destroy Godzilla, but its maker is reluctant for it to be used).

Concerned with both the literal and the political invisibility of radioactivity, Kriemann worked with scientists at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the National Archives (Washington) and the Museum of Natural History (Berlin) to produce various versions of an «autoradiograph» — a unique type of photograph that is the result of directly exposing light - sensitive paper to radioactive specimens, such as pechblende.

Richter claimed that radioactivity is not a health risk with nuclear power plants only producing a fraction of the radioactivity the bones of living humans generate.