Sentences with phrase «radiation released into»

Human sources of radiation released into the atmosphere over the past 60 years, although serious, pale in comparison to the radionuclides already naturally present in the ocean.

Not exact matches

Entergy reported no radiation was released into the environment, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has complained that there have been too many problems at Indian Point and has called for closing down the plant.

Eventually it broke down into the ordinary vacuum of space as we know it, releasing tremendous amounts of matter and radiation.

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.

If unchecked, a meltdown can send superheated fuel through the steel and concrete that surrounds it, damaging or destroying the reactor and releasing extreme levels of radiation into the environment.

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.

There, they release a sudden burst of remaining energy, depositing the lethal dose of radiation directly into the tumor.

Piran has now explained how a fraction of the energy released by colliding neutron stars could be converted into gamma radiation.

The magnetic structures, known as undulators, bring the electrons into a slalom course, and with every turn they release extremely short - wavelength X-ray radiation, which intensify across the length of the undulator stretch.

«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.

Morever, larger trees transpire, or release, more water into the atmosphere, cooling the land and supporting cloud formation, which effects how much solar radiation is reflected back to space and impacts precipitation.

Satellites and balloons first detect a blue flash — known as Cerenkov radiation — when cosmic rays smash into the upper atmosphere and release energy.

NuScale's design incorporates seven layers of defense to prevent the release of radiation or radioactive contamination into the environment.

As this matter was sucked into the black hole in the researchers» simulation, it accelerated and released enough X-ray radiation to heat gas as much as a hundred light years away to several thousand degrees.

At electrical breakdown, the energies in the surging electrons were thousands of times greater than 10 — 19 MeV, so during the flood, bremsstrahlung radiation released a sea of neutrons throughout the crust.83 Subterranean water absorbed many of these neutrons, converting normal hydrogen (1H) into heavy hydrogen (2H, called deuterium) and normal oxygen (16O) into 18O.

As cancer cells are destroyed by radiation, they release their proteins into the bloodstream, clearly revealing their identities as cancer cells and, as a result, attracting the attention of the immune system.

The image captured by the ALMA — by turning radio signals, which measure electromagnetic radiation, into digital signals and translating those into a visual representation — «gives an incredible view of the process of planet formation,» Tony Beasley, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, says in a press release Thursday.

Himalayan salt lamps are attributed to purifying the air by releasing negative ions into the atmosphere that neutralize the positive ions emitted from different types of radiation (like from cell phones and computers).

Well, coal burning has released more radiation into the environment by far than nuclear has.

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).

where latent heat release and net radiation into the atmospheric column, R, balance heat divergence, and the relatively weak contribution from sensible heat transport from the land surface to the atmospheric column has been neglected.

Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially as a result of utilization of fossil fuels) leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature because the molecules of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface.

It determines how much of the radiation delivered to land goes into warming the near - surface atmosphere compared with how much is released as latent heat fuelling precipitation at higher levels.

These gases absorb infrared radiation emitted by Earth and release that energy into the atmosphere rather than allowing it to escape to space.

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.

Furthermore as the Sun's radiation is re-emitted into space before reaching the Earth's surface, that surface will be colder than the assumed 15 degrees Celsius and thus will release even less radiation at all wavelengths.

As they heat up, the oceans, land and atmosphere release heat in the form of IR thermal radiation, which passes out of the atmosphere and into space.

Planting trees in green areas help to limit the UHI effect, by providing shade, deflecting the sun's radiation and releasing moisture back into the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere cause this long - wave radiation to increase.

They will willfully fail to understand science's judgement that there is no safe level of radiation exposure, the less the better (And By God never reveal that nuke plants emit routinely release radiation into the unsuspecting surrounding communities).