Sentences with phrase «radioactive particles»

The mix of radioactive particles released into the atmosphere would vary with the length of time expired since the fuel units were moved from reactors to the pools.

If left exposed to air, they may catch fire or explode, spreading radioactive particles into the air.

Being exposed to the toxic environment for so many years, these pups have radioactive particles on their fur and inside their bodies.

But fish and seaweed could concentrate radioactive particles to levels higher than those in the surrounding waters, so monitoring will be crucial to assess the impact on marine life.

The estimate of 11,000 fatal cancers also does not include internal radiation exposure caused by the breathing in or swallowing of radioactive particles.

The oceans are already being filled with radioactive particles from japans fukashima, what would happen if a oil spill happened as well?We can stop fishing and even swimming in the ocean for 1000's of years, think of our children not your wallets

Workers built an elaborate scrubbing system that removes cesium, strontium and dozens of other radioactive particles from the water; some of it is recirculated into the reactors, and some goes into row upon row of giant tanks at the site.

Taking samples of such speleothems from six caves, the researchers then reconstructed the last roughly 500,000 years of climate via the decay of radioactive particles in the stone.

Such an explosion would then waft the uranium and other radioactive particles into the air.

The patterns of movement, which appear random, are actually defined by a Geiger counter as it detects radioactive particles in the air.

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The fire, whatever kind it was, appears to have carried radioactive particles into the surrounding countryside to the northwest as it coincided in time with the wind blowing in that direction.

The goo is sprayed on to a surface (or applied with a paintbrush), allowed to dry, and then peeled off, bringing radioactive particles with it, like a lint roller on a cat hair — encrusted couch.

That golden spike will likely come from radioactive particles spread around the globe by atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s, starting off our geologic reign with a bang.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

When it hardens, it shrinks by about 20 percent, sucking up fine radioactive particles and encapsulating them in its folds.

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

Subsequent testing of employees showed 21 had inhaled or ingested radioactive particles in amounts unlikely to harm their health, officials said.

Shellfish and other bottom feeders would be the ones most likely to suffer long - term contamination as radioactive particles settle on the sediment.

Nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and»60s blasted radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

Another perennial concern is that the water contaminated with radioactive particles still leaking from the stricken nuclear power plant site is poisoning Pacific Ocean fish and other seafood.

Because of this «generic» flaw built into the original plants, a special vent was added after the Three Mile Island accident to reactors in the U.S. and Japan that allows operators to release radioactive steam before pressure gets too high — steam that can also carry even longer - lived radioactive particles, such as iodine 131 or cesium 137, in the event of a meltdown.

And that means there may be two direct paths for radioactive particle byproducts of nuclear fission, such as cesium 137 and iodine 131, to escape and spread radiation — cracks in containment as well as the spent fuel pools now open to the air.

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.

Whereas radioactive particles that fall on surfaces could be washed, cesium - 137 that is ingested by a stock animal, a fish, or taken up from soil by a plant would lead to that product being condemned.

Since 1964, Finnish researchers — anxious about nuclear contamination from the neighboring Soviet Union — had been measuring several air pollutants, including radioactive particles and soot.

Residual radioactive particles propelled into the air — known as fallout — create a longer - term threat to living things near a nuclear blast.

Others were fed radioactive particles.

That temperature is maintained by the decay of radioactive particles located within the Earth's core.

Right out of the international news, forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear wreck in Ukraine have raised dangerous radioactive particles into the atmosphere — again.

Radon decays quickly, giving off tiny radioactive particles.

It binds to radioactive particles flushing them out of the body and is very effective in detoxifying our organism from mercury, which is very important as most of us might be contaminated with mercury through dental fillings, vaccination, or fish consumption.

Nuclear power plants, by contrast, produce significant pollutants only when radioactive particles escape as a result of accidents.

The scientists brought their 1.55 metre cores to the surface in 1993, but it has taken another two decades for laboratory techniques to detect and interpret the significance of radioactive particle samples in the rock that could only have come from outer space — which is why scientists think the bedrock must have been exposed, possibly more than once.

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Dane: I just now (4-14-16) heard you discuss climate engineering and the synergistic complexities which flare into existence when combined with Fukushima Radiation in both the air and the Pacific — and other radioactive particles from who knows where (Iraq war DU,left - over above ground atomic explosions, millions of tons of nuke waste just dumped into the oceans since 1945)?

Then there's the more than 100,000 metric tons of cooling water and groundwater contaminated with radioactive particles being stored in tanks at the site, some of which is either leaking, reaches the sea naturally or is periodically released intentionally to prevent a flood.

At the time of the 1986 explosion that released massive amounts of radioactive particles into the air, Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.

In 1986, after a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released radioactive particles into the air, thousands of people left the area, never to return.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

DeconGel is also picks up radioactive particles that regular methods miss, the company says.

Four days after the accident, the radioactive particles were already in Africa and China.

According to the rules of quantum mechanics, the radioactive particle exists as a wave function in all its possible states — both emitted and not emitted.

The next day, radioactive particles from the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl began falling on Schönau.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

On 6 April a tank exploded at a reprocessing plant at Tomsk, sending a cloud of radioactive particles into the air (This Week, 17 April).

A PET scanner can then detect the radioactive particles emitted from inside the brain, representing areas of increased microglial activation before and after immune stimulation with LPS.

Then I remembered seeing a science experiment at my high school in Elsinore, in which our teacher showed us what is called a cloud chamber, and seeing tracks of radioactive particles, which look like small droplets.

By ingesting or being injected with radioactive particles, patients can give off signals that trace the actions of insidious diseases such as cancer.