Sentences with phrase «radioactive cobalt»

While the tremendous increase in luminosity is given by energy liberated by the explosion, its gradually fading light is fueled by radioactive cobalt decaying into iron.

When the core ignites, carbon and oxygen fuse to form lots of radioactive cobalt - 56, whose radioactive decay into iron - 56 with a half - life of 77 days powers the peak brightness of a supernova.

«When a thermonuclear weapon is surrounded with with ordinary cobalt (cobalt - 59) metal,» as Russia's Status 6 is rumored to be, «the fast neutrons escaping the explosion will instantly transmute it into radioactive cobalt - 60, which would vaporize, condense, and then fall back to earth tens, hundreds, or thousands of miles from the site of the explosion.»

The result would be a shroud of radioactive cobalt spreading indiscriminately across the planet.

Not exact matches

Schwartz estimates the cobalt would take 53 years to return to non-dangerous levels, and that other radioactive elements could persist for much longer.

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who made 50 straight passes at a Dunes crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.

Cobalt - 60 and many other radioactive elements emit highly energetic gamma rays when they decay.

Seven scrapyard workers, unaware that the machine they were dismantling contained cobalt - 60 — a radioactive, gray - blue metal resembling nickel — fell ill; one died.

Hayes, along with Sergey Sholom of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, tested this idea with two AAA battery sized capsules of radioactive substances — cobalt - 60 and cesium - 137.

He found that the material was laced with radioactive isotopes of phosphorus, cobalt, zinc, silver and other elements, enough to provide raw material for a serious research programme.

In order to contaminate a large area with enough radioactive material to pose a major health hazard, the dirty bomb would have to be packed with so much cobalt 60 (on the order of a few ounces in this case) that the terrorists would die of radiation poisoning within minutes of exposure to their own weapon.

In the typical scenario, a group of terrorists steal a few ounces of radioactive material like cobalt 60 from a food irradiation facility.

India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) says it took the drastic step because the university missed its August deadline for filing a fact - finding report on an incident that took place in April, when the Chemistry Department breached regulations by selling as scrap a gamma irradiator containing the highly radioactive isotope cobalt - 60.

Neutron bombardment can convert iron and cobalt, both found in steel, into the highly radioactive isotopes manganese 54 and cobalt 60.

A transport packaging set is intended for storage and shipment of radioactive materials including ionizing sources based on non-fissionable materials, such as high total activity cobalt, iridium, californium, etc..

It was carrying two containers of Cobalt - 57, a radioactive element.

Located in the Mapimí Desert in Mexico, this almost uninhabited area is steeped in mystery akin to the Bermuda Triangle — radio signals and compasses do not work within, and in 1970 it was the crash site of a U.S. Athena test - missile that veered 400 miles off course; the missile was carrying two small containers of the radioactive element cobalt 57.