Sentences with phrase «radioactive fallout»

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

The problem with nuclear test explosions is that they create radioactive fallout.

Recently radioactive fallout from nuclear testing has introduced another and far more dangerous type of air poisoning.

Scientists have figured out what you should do if deadly radioactive fallout is headed your way.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

Just 12 years before she received her PhD, the United States dropped atomic bombs that devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the US continued to unleash a torrent of radioactive fallout in the Pacific as it tested bigger and bigger bombs.

The 1986 nuclear meltdown and explosion at Chernobyl scattered radioactive fallout across 30 European countries.

The following year, the U.S. Pacific atomic test Castle Bravo showered a Japanese fishing vessel with radioactive fallout, resulting in 23 cases of radiation sickness (including one death) and a boatload of contaminated tuna.

Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of radiation disasters because their bodies metabolize substances differently and they are closer to the ground, where radioactive fallout settles.

Together, the explosions released 400 times as much radioactive fallout as the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

«There are no dogs with two heads,» says Martin Hajduch of the Slovak Academy of Sciences — although birds, insects and humans have all been affected to a greater or lesser extent by radioactive fallout.

But legitimate concerns over radioactive fallout and the dual - use possibilities of miniaturized thermonuclear explosives forced Project Orion's eventual cancellation.

But a nuclear attack would probably create more radioactive fallout than a missile - launched warhead.

Richardson and other experts have also pointed out that a near - shore blast from this type of weapon could suck up tons of ocean sediment, irradiate it, and rain it upon nearby areas — generating catastrophic radioactive fallout.

«Nuclear weapons only generate significant amounts of radioactive fallout when they are detonated at, near, or beneath ground level,» Stephen Schwartz, author of «Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940,» told Business Insider.

In Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, a power surge caused an explosion in one of the plant's reactors, releasing huge doses of radioactive fallout into the air.

A plume of radioactive fallout drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland and eastern North America.

It also resulted in the largest nuclear contamination accident in U.S. history, as shifting winds carried radioactive fallout across the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Ailinginae and Utirik as well as Rongerik — where U.S. servicemen were stationed — in the central Pacific's Marshall Islands.

Half of my family has died from cancers that I believe were a result of radioactive fallout caused by aboveground nuclear explosions tested in the Nevada desert from 1945 to 1962....

Cancer has always been, and remains, the ultimate bogeyman of environmentalism, a fixation that reflects how the environmental movement arose from our 1950s fear of nuclear weapons and the carcinogenic radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.

Saruhashi worked at the Central Meteorological Observatory in Tokyo to develop more sensitive methods of measuring radioactive fallout.

Hayward may have developed cancer from radioactive fallout from atmospheric atomic bomb tests [14] while making The Conqueror with John Wayne in St. George, Utah.

The declaration of war by one parent on another creates radioactive fallout, which contaminates for generations.

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Japanese geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi, whose research helped reveal the insidious spread of radioactive fallout from the US nuclear testing ground in the Pacific.

But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout, a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms.

Buddemeier said you'd have about 15 minutes — maybe a little bit longer, depending on how far away you are from the blast site — to get to the center of a building to avoid devastating exposure to radioactive fallout.

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

Yes, #HimStill As the White House scrambles to deal with the radioactive fallout of the Rob Porter scandal, the search for a scapegoat is leading to a dizzying round of finger pointing.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

Nuclear war would not only kill us directly by blast and radioactive fallout.

Even those who opposed the Trump health care bill may not escape its radioactive fallout.

A plume of radioactive fallout (yellow) stretches east across Washington, D.C., a few hours after a nuclear bomb goes off near the White House in this snapshot of an agent - based model.

Winds shear the bomb's mushroom cloud into a plume of radioactive fallout that drifts eastward into the Maryland suburbs.

The list of ailments ripe for better treatments stretches far beyond AIDS, even far beyond medicine: traffic jams, radioactive fallout, and unsolved murders, to name a few.

But disposing of radioactive fallout that clings to walls, seeps into crevices, and coats rescue vehicles is an altogether more vexing problem.

Owing to the weather patterns just after the accident, most of the radioactive fallout landed northwest of the Fukushima complex.

About 60 percent of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus, according to official post-Soviet data.

The finding could pave the way for a new means of extracting cesium from the environment, potentially speeding up decontamination efforts following the radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011.

The disaster also released a plume of radioactive fallout that contaminated more than 200,000 square kilometers of Europe, roughly three quarters of which lies in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

The team says that in regions where the radioactive fallout after Chernobyl was most intense, not only mushrooms but also higher components in the food chain, including game meat of red deer and wild boar, still have excess values of 137Cs.

The environmental and health impacts this kind of test are also unpredictable and would largely depend on how the bomb is built, where it is detonated and how the weather patterns at that time affect the radioactive fallout.

Although the USPSTF recommends against screening in the general asymptomatic adult population, several factors substantially increase the risk for thyroid cancer, including a history of radiation exposure to the head and neck as a child, exposure to radioactive fallout, family history of thyroid cancer in a first - degree relative, and certain genetic conditions, such as familial medullary thyroid cancer or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome (type 2A or 2B).4