Sentences with phrase «radioactive materials placed»

The radiation may come from outside of the body (external radiation) or from radioactive materials placed directly in the tumor (internal or implant radiation).

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.

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.

Six years after the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, radioactive material is leaching into the Pacific Ocean from an unexpected place.

That means 36 states with reactors, hospitals and other industry with radioactive materials have no place to send much of their waste.

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated — in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Geologists say radioactivity levels can vary across the Marcellus, but the tests taken so far suggest the amount of radioactive material measured in New York is far higher than in many other places.

Brachytherapy is less damaging to surrounding tissue than external beam therapy, but as the radioactive material is placed inside the cancer, the animal becomes radioactive.

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