Sentences with phrase «radioactive materials at»

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.

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.

Safely shipped over 2500 loads of radioactive material at the ETTP Balance of Project, and ORNL Soils and Sediments Project.

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«The other possibility there is that Uber realized that Mr. Levandowski was radioactive... and came up with some series of agreements that somehow would insulate Uber from any of that material ever being used at Uber,» Judge William Alsup said.

No containment structures exist over the spent fuel pools; the pools are vulnerable to a loss - of - coolant scenario; mock attack drills reveal accessibility to and vulnerability of spent fuel buildings; and two of the spent fuel pools at Indian Point have been leaking radioactive materials.

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.

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 explosion.

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

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.

Goel, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is the primary inventor of a new method to immobilize radioactive iodine in ceramics at room temperature.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

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.

So comparing the positions of electrons in atoms at different spots on walls, windows and floors could provide a rough snapshot of where radioactive material was once stored and how strong it was, researchers report online July 3 in Health Physics.

Dennis Slaughter, a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, is therefore developing a smarter scanner that seeks radioactive material actively, not passively.

In April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, sending clouds of radioactive material across the countryside.

At Yucca, spent fuel housed in steel canisters would be sealed within tunnels above the water table, in a manner meant to minimize corrosion and possible leakage of radioactive material, even over geologically long periods.

This led to core meltdowns at three of the six reactors at the facility, hydrogen explosions, and a release of radioactive material.

Highly packed spent fuel pools at the Japanese facility have caught fire, lost coolant, and released unknown quantities of radioactive material, underscoring the need to remove as much fuel from overcrowded pools as possible.

Based on building materials used in the Arctic at the time, the authors speculate the site contains polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pollutants toxic to human health, along with an unknown volume of low - level radioactive coolant from the nuclear generator.

The difference between this accident and Chernobyl, they say, is that at Chernobyl a huge fire released large amounts of many radioactive materials, including fuel particles, in smoke.

After all, 30 kilometers was the extent of the spread of dangerous radioactive material even at Chernobyl, a far worse nuclear accident that included an intense fire that wafted radioactive particles more than 9,000 meters into the air.

Personnel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant responded to the accident with courage and resilience, and their actions likely reduced its severity and the magnitude of offsite radioactive material releases, the committee said.

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.

On 23 May 2013, a malfunction sent a brief, unexpectedly high intensity beam at a gold target and vaporized radioactive material leaked into the experiment hall.

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.

«I don't believe anyone has taken a look, seriously, at what the unintended consequences are to dealing with these kinds of materials,» said Theodore Adams, the radioactive waste disposal consultant.

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.

Research at the ACE will integrate both experimental and computational approaches to analyze radioactive materials, including the elements americium, neptunium, plutonium and uranium, taking advantage of specialized facilities developed at Notre Dame.

The search for more clues about how she might have become exposed to highly radioactive material, leads to her job at Northmoor Corporation which was secretly involved in some shady nuclear defense contracts with the U.S. government.

The residue from recycling is some really long lasting radioactive material that could be described as waste — at least until someone develops a use for it — but it is greatly reduced in bulk, reducing one of the factors you have to consider.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami led to nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and a release of radioactive material, all Japanese nuclear plants were closed out of safety concerns.

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.

Concerned that radioactive material could contaminate groundwater, three staffers at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality resigned rather than sign off on the licenses.»

It may be an operational issue, but it's one that is causing radioactive material to enter the groundwater at levels far in excess of safety standards.

We used observations of inert and radioactive chemical constituents («tracers») to estimate the rates at which the ocean transports material from the surface to the interior.

That was why they re-set the accident classification at level 7 on the UN's International Nuclear Events Scale - i.e. involving «major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures».

If your job will involve hauling radioactive or harmful substances, you are required to take specialized trainings for hazardous materials that you can finish while you are on the job during the first few weeks of your employment at a certain trucking company.