Sentences with phrase «radioactive contaminants»

The Polish scientists were looking to send someone to set up monitoring of radioactive contaminants in the upper atmosphere, the legacy of atomic - weapons testing by the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries in the 1950s.

Despite these efforts, to detect pp neutrinos the Borexino collaboration had to go through an especially lengthy purification campaign to reduce the levels of radioactive contaminants in the scintillator liquid — particularly krypton - 85, a byproduct of nuclear testing and reprocessing that now pervades the atmosphere and produces a decay signal very similar to that from the arrival of a pp neutrino.

The impending arrival of radioactive contaminants from Fukushima has raised concerns among coastal residents in the United States and Canada.

Researchers at Rice University and Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered that tiny bits of graphene oxide bond with radioactive contaminants, turning them into huge extractable clusters.

Since at least August 2005, radioactive contaminants such as tritium and strontium - 90 have been leaking from Indian Point's spent fuel pools into the groundwater and the Hudson River.

Ke and his team hope that through continued testing the material will prove to be effective against cesium and other radioactive contaminants associated with nuclear plants.

Although offshore waters are safe with respect to international standards for radionuclides in the ocean (2), the nuclear power plants continue to leak radioactive contaminants into the ocean (3); many near - shore fisheries remain closed.

«It's another facet of the impacts of low - dose - rate radioactive contaminants on the broader ecosystem,» Mousseau says.

The surrounding xenon further shields the core xenon target from all materials which already have tiny surviving radioactive contaminants.

Technetium - 99 is a common radioactive contaminant in groundwater at nuclear waste sites.

The release of radioactive contaminants from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains an unprecedented event for the people of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.

Some radioactive contaminants could be filtered out or allowed to decay, whereas others would pose more serious long - term problems

In addition to measuring the concentration and spread of radioactivity in the ocean, scientists can also use these radioactive contaminants to learn about ocean properties and processes.

Typically, dust and other particles, seawater and other liquids, or even gases pick up radioactive contaminants that are then transported great distances.

In addition to measuring the concentration and spread of radioactivity in the ocean, scientists can also use these radioactive contaminants to learn about ocean properties and processes.