Sentences with phrase «radioactive material in»

To illustrate how weird this is, Schrödinger imagined placing the radioactive material in a box, connected to a Geiger counter.

There is no such thing as clean coal at this time, and it is doubtful that we will ever be able to fully eliminate emissions of mercury, other heavy metals, and radioactive material in the mining and burning of coal.

The iodine is taken up by the active (abnormal) thyroid tissue, but not by any other tissues, resulting in a selective local accumulation of radioactive material in the abnormal tissues.

Specifically, the NuStar will map radioactive material in supernovae remnants in an attempt to study the origins of cosmic rays and extreme physics surrounding collapsed stars.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

Discovering how to keep radioactive material in the soil and out of the groundwater, whether it is in the United States, Russia, or elsewhere, could protect people and the environment without incurring extreme expenses.

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.

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.

A Duke University study of treated oil and gas wastewater finds that current water quality regulations are inadequate to prevent accumulation of radioactive material in surface waters.

«Improving detection of radioactive material in nuclear waste water.»

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.

«It would be ideal to scrub more radioactive species other than iodine — you would want to scrub all of the radioactive material in one go,» said Ke.

A dirty bomb, or a bomb that propels radioactive materials in the air with help from a conventional explosive charge, requires radioactive material that can only be obtained via license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The study, published in the online journal Environmental Science & Technology (ACS Publications), determined the impact of intrinsic colloid formation on increased migration of leaked radioactive materials in the environment.

Now researchers from the University of Maryland have proposed a new technique to remotely detect the radioactive materials in dirty bombs or other sources.

«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.

But recently, scientists have discovered that radioactive materials in water can clump onto flakes of graphene oxide (GO).

A few studies have found naturally occurring radioactive materials in the solid waste, but the research only focused on several long - lived radioactive isotopes including uranium - 238 and radium - 226.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

Putting radioactive materials in the environment has to stop.

And, where do we see enviro - activists demanding reductions in radioactive materials in order to stop to global warming?

To be fair, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains the radioactive materials in granite countertops are far too minuscule to pose a health threat.

Not exact matches

So common in fact is this process, that the NRC has deputized Texas to issue licenses to buy radioactive materials without federal review.

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.

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.

The department controls the radioactive materials - plutonium, uranium and tritium - used in Americas nuclear weapons and in the reactors of nuclear - powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.

Investors felt the biggest shock waves when Japan's prime minister announced that radioactive material had leaked from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima province and that more leaks were possible.

I sometimes think that the difficulties we now face in controlling water, air, and soil pollution, and the undue dissemination of radioactive materials, are the result of a common impression that «the boundary between life and non - life has all but disappeared.

There has been a stagnation in the building of nuclear power stations in Europe as fears concerning safety have mounted, especially in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, and the problem of the disposal and storage of radioactive waste materials has not been solved.

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).

Yesterday home secretary John Reid confirmed that police were treating the death as suspicious, after discovering high quantities of the radioactive material polonium - 210 (Po - 210) in Mr Litvinenko's body.

Some areas of the framework are already very specific in details, specially where it has to do with the Iranians capacity to enrich (or not to enrich) weapon grade radioactive materials.

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.

Indian Point officials will send a camera - equipped robot into pipes beneath the nuclear power plant next week to try to find the source of radioactive material showing up in the groundwater below the plant.

A radioactive material has been detected in the groundwater below the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Schumer (D - N.Y.), in a one - on - one meeting last week, asked Mattis to follow up on the senator's concerns about radioactive materials at the state Superfund site.

Soil and slag with low levels of radioactive material — a remnant of the steel - making process that once took place at RiverBend in South Buffalo — would be buried underneath a foot of clean soil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factory.

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.

In a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosioIn a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosioin the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosion.

About half of the radioactive material leaves the body through the kidneys and bladder in urine.

Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.

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.

Since I grew up in Hiroshima, I knew how long it would take to get rid of this radioactive material.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

In 1957, an explosion occurred at a plutonium production plant, releasing about 80 tonnes of radioactive material.

The new method, published in Scientific Reports, could dramatically reduce the effective half - life (an indicator of the amount of time it takes to bring radioactive materials down to safe levels) of long - lived fission products [1](LLFPs) from hundreds of thousands of years to within a hundred years.

The improper disposal of a derelict gamma - ray research device at the University of Delhi has resulted in the death of a scrap - metal worker — and drawn scrutiny of how India's academic institutions handle radioactive materials.

Most of the experiments were carried out in the laboratories at Idaho, which provided a safe area to work with radioactive material.