Sentences with phrase «radioactive material for»

Among 6,293 men who worked in the chemical plant preparing the radioactive material for the Soviet bomb (without masks!)

They are then washed in an acidic solution that captures the radioactive material for refinement.

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

Paul Schaffer, associate laboratory director of the life sciences division of Canada's particle physics laboratory TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility), which uses particle accelerators to create radioactive materials for medicine, explains in a public lecture that will be broadcast live here on this webpage Wednesday, December 2 at 7 P.M. Eastern time.

Nuclear medicine technologists prepare, administer and measure various levels of chemicals used to create radioactive materials for imaging or therapeutic purposes.

Nuclear technology refers to using radioactive materials for beneficial purposes.

Not exact matches

So an inspector came out to the phony, empty office, but instead of turning the group down for having no security in place, or arousing suspicion about the obvious potential that the business was a shell company, he issued a license on the spot for a small amount of radioactive material.

When radioactive material can so readily be obtained in the US, there is no need for bad actors to risk communicating and coordinating with foreign actors.

Several American cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu, have response plans for terrorist attacks, including so - called «dirty bombs» containing radioactive material.

«You don't have to store (spent radioactive materials) for hundreds of thousands of years.

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.

I think that after most radioactive scans, the mother can continue breastfeeding, but if she and her physician are truly concerned, waiting 2 half lives is enough, for a material such as technetium.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

He was speaking in response to John Reid's statement in the House of Commons this afternoon, in which the home secretary confirmed that several people were being tested for traces of the radioactive material that killed Mr Litvinenko.

Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to overhaul its licensing protocol for obtaining radioactive materials, citing a recent report that a fictitious company got a license for enough material for a dirty bomb.

A radioactive material has been detected in the groundwater below the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and New York's governor Saturday called for state officials to investigate.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

«Glass is a perfect material for immobilizing the radioactive wastes with excellent chemical durability,» said Goel, who works in the School of Engineering.

These plans are designed to be safe based on physical and chemical barriers that will stop radioactive material from escaping for hundreds of thousands of years.

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.

The TEPCO operators of the stricken nuclear power plant — a minimal staff of 50 as all non-essential personnel have been evacuated — now face a balance between venting the steam building up in the reactor (since the main danger for a widespread release of radioactive material is steam bursting the thick steel container holding the reactor) and keeping any radioactive materials inside the power plant itself.

A dirty bomb — radioactive material by a conventional explosive — «is much less of a problem to detonate and if successful would render a large swath of a big city uninhabitable for years,» he says.

This component is only mildly radioactive and, if separated from the fission products and the rest of the material in the spent fuel, could readily be stored safely for future use in lightly protected facilities.

Organic liquids, radioactive materials, halogenated liquids (chloroform, for example), and certain metal salts are all things that shouldn't be introduced into the environment.

One category of highly radioactive material, which ends up stored in glass «logs» for burial, is reduced, he said.

The study found that some well waste from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania contained radioactive material not previously reported, with the potential for leaching from landfills into the environment.

The new study revealed a previously unsuspected pathway for radioactive material to be transported, stored for years, and subsequently released far from the site where it was initially discharged.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

Otherwise, radioactive material and a slew of other toxic compounds could leach into the groundwater, potentially tainting it for generations.

Chernobyl was directly responsible for at least 56 deaths and as many as 4,000 more, according to the World Health Organization, though other estimates vary, and spread radioactive material as far as the U.K. Three Mile Island has never been conclusively linked to any deaths or health effects, though some individuals may have received radiation doses of as high as 100 millirems.

Heavy, silvery - white, toxic, metallic, naturally radioactive, pyrophoric, and teratogenic uranium belongs to the actinide series and its isotope 235U is used as the fuel for nuclear reactors and the explosive material for nuclear weapons.

However, they add, testing has affected both the limestone and the underlying volcanic rock in a way which is likely to increase «the longer - term potential for leakage of radioactive material».

A number of radiotherapies that marry a small but potent amount of radioactive material and a targeted molecular compound have been gaining traction as progressive treatments for malignant NETs, which can develop wherever nerve cells and hormone - producing endocrine cells are present (e.g., gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, lungs, thyroid).

Centore spent the next four months working among the steaming ruins, looking for radioactive material in both the pile and the debris being carted off to various sites.

In its 2017 Budget - in - Brief, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lists among its priorities allocating $ 103.9 million for radiological and nuclear detection equipment «to keep U.S. ports of entry safe and secure by detecting and interdicting illicit radioactive or nuclear materials.»

They would also be at risk if they somehow swallowed or breathed fumes from the radioactive wastewater, or handled the concentrated materials regularly for 20 years.

Although the review pointed to a possible need for radioactive licensing and disposal for certain materials, and it looked at other states with laws aimed at radioactive waste from drilling, the DEC said there is no precedent for examining how these radioactive materials might affect the environment when brought to the surface at the volumes and scale expected in New York.

Louisiana, for example, began regulating radioactive materials after it found radioactive buildup in pipes dumped in scrap yards and in the steel used to build schoolyard bleachers.

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

The hole would not have been used for radioactive material, but was rather intended to garner insight to the geology and technical challenges of such drilling.

Such boreholes could not house most of the country's waste, like fuel rods from nuclear power plants, but could have potential for smaller, long - lived radioactive materials.

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..

She received training in the safe use of radioactive materials at the Radiation Safety Office at WSU Pullman and said her experiments involve the smallest amount of radioactivity possible to get research results for publication.

decay (for radioactive materials) The process whereby a radioactive isotope or particle sheds energy.

The MIT Study found that reprocessing and recycling plutonium — which creates weapon - usable material and some of the most radioactive waste in the world — is also uneconomic and likely to remain so for decades to come.

A very severe transportation accident or successful terrorist attack in an urban area could release radioactive materials to the environment, causing hundreds of latent cancer fatalities, and costing hundreds of millions, or even billions, of dollars for cleanup and compensation.

'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.

The conditions were so extreme that this environment was ripe for chunks of radioactive neutron star material to stick together, creating new elements.

And compared to the byproducts of nuclear plants, which remain radioactive for thousands of years, the small amount of radioactive material produced in fusion reactions would remain radioactive for tens of years, Synakowski said.