Sentences with phrase «radioactive material around»
A more realistic image is terrorists planning to explode a «dirty» bomb, that is, an ordinary bomb that scatters radioactive materials around a neighborhood.
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The gamma rays strip electrons from the molecules in the surrounding air, and the resulting free electrons lose energy and readily attach to oxygen molecules to create elevated levels of negatively charged oxygen ions around the radioactive materials.
«Even under the best of circumstances, this material has quite a complicated supply chain, especially considering the regulations around transporting radioactive materials,» says Murthy.
Cell phones use non-ionizing radiation, which differs from the ionizing radiation of x-rays and radioactive material in that it does not have enough energy to knock around — or ionize — electrons or particles in atoms.
«We have to take care, because there are huge amounts of materials around the Fukushima nuclear plant,» he says, concerned that radioactive materials in the debris could be released into the atmosphere all over again if ignited.
If drug cartels can regularly sneak tons of narcotics into and around the country, surely terrorists can do the same with a much smaller cache of radioactive material.
In the months and years after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, scientists were able to track the spread of radioactive material in the atmosphere and the ocean around the globe.
A metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scan — a procedure first discovered at the University of Michigan and now used around the world — which uses radioactive material and a scanner to find a neuroblastoma may be required, along with a PET scan and bone scan.
A very low - budget film noir from the end of that genre's initial period of popularity, 1959's City of Fear seems a criminal carrying a canister of radioactive material (which he believes to be something else) around Los Angeles, threatening himself and others.
I came across a disturbing New Yorker article from 2007 by Steve Coll, who wrote of the alarming amount of unguarded, highly radioactive material floating around the world, and the ease with which it could be made into a dirty bomb.
There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.
Followed rules and guidelines by the NRC to work safely around radiation and radioactive materials