Sentences with phrase «radioactive element found»
Soil at the spill sites was contaminated with radium, a naturally occurring radioactive element found in brines, which chemically attached to the soil after the spill water was released.
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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.
Bottom - dwelling fish continue to be found with high levels of radioactive elements, potentially coming from leaking radioactive water or contaminated sediments
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.
However, my girlfriend is a geologist, and she looks at natural radiation that comes from rocks, particularly in the south of England — geologists know what elements and radioactive isotopes they have in the ground because nuclear physicists have been able to find out which of these the radiation comes from.