Sentences with phrase «radioactive products»

Pharmacy technician tasks include, but are not limited to: • Preparing radioactive products • Cleaning and preparing sterile compounding areas • Entering orders into the pharmacy system • Coordinating dose due times with deliveries and preparation • Billing products to hospital or clinic

The technology to produce this high beam intensity, and in particular to handle the radioactive products safely and reliably, is now available, and many facilities are in their design or construction phases around the world.

However, please do not bring mercury - containing or radioactive products.

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The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout, a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms.

One of the products in fallout is radioactive iodine.

And the final product of this process of radioactive disintegration is the element lead!

These include the products of radioactive decay, cosmic rays (the highest - energy form of electromagnetic radiation known to man), and the stellar wind, a stream of particles that fly out from any star as it continuously burns.

HOW do you create efficient fusion power with fewer radioactive by - products?

Some fission products were placed in the explosive so that radioactive traces could be measured.

The slag, which typically includes some radioactive uranium and radium in addition to calcium minerals, is the waste product from the conversion of phosphate ore to phosphorus.

A product we developed for animals plays a role in protecting all of us from nuclear mishaps: Cat litter is often used to absorb and stabilize volatile radioactive chemicals stored in nuclear waste facilities.

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.

In 1920, he speculated that by measuring the amount of a radioactive isotope and its daughter products in rocks, geologists would be able to tell their age — a technique that has become widely used.

The Carnegie team focused on a rare isotope of titanium, titanium - 49, because this isotope is the product of radioactive decay of vanadium - 49 which is produced during supernova explosions and transmutes into titanium - 49 with a half - life of 330 days.

What is more, the uranium atoms that have already split in two produce radioactive by - products that themselves give off a great deal of heat.

The household product was used to absorb liquid in radioactive debris at a waste disposal site in New Mexico where a radiation escaped to the surface and exposed 21 workers

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.

The radioactive decay products then emit electrons and antineutrinos.

He envisions underground vaults filled with radioactive materials, rather like a walk - in x-ray machine: «You could drop in whole packaged food products and have them emerge stable,» he asserts.

Science answers: Spent fuel is more dangerous because it contains a mixture of fission products, some of which can be long - lived radioactive waste, and also plutonium which is highly toxic.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

Children's thyroid glands are especially vulnerable, because they are prone to absorbing radioactive iodine, a by - product of the meltdown.

«Even if our formation wasn't triggered by a supernova, the presence of decay products of certain radioactive elements points to a supernova perhaps seeding the already formed young solar system with enriched elements.»

One such product linked to these activities, isosaccharinic acid (ISA), causes much concern as it can react with a wide range of radionuclides — unstable and toxic elements that are formed during the production of nuclear power and make up the radioactive component of nuclear waste.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

«The shallow underwater tests performed during that time did create a highly radioactive plume with some fission products trapped in the water, although that material disperses and gets diluted fairly quickly,» Lyman says.

The ratio of certain radioactive isotopes produced within such a reactor depends on alpha, and so looking at the fission products left behind in the ground at Oklo provides a way to work out the value of the constant at the time of their formation.

Antineutrinos are a by - product of the fission in a nuclear reactor, in which an atomic nucleus of a radioactive element such as plutonium splits into lighter elements.

It is relatively easy to separate this plutonium, because the depleted uranium blanket is less contaminated with highly radioactive fission products than regular spent fuel.

Another product, the atomic bomb, was constructed by way of nuclear reactors that could, in peace time, provide an abundant supply of radioactive isotopes, which are now of great value not only in biophysical research but also in biochemistry and medicine.

They detected nickel 60, the product of the radioactive decay of iron 60, in chemical compounds where, by rights iron should be found.»

While the fission products in a thorium fuel cycle have a half - life of about 66 years; it is also so highly radioactive that it can not be used to make bombs.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

In order to convert the material invested in such reactors to atomic weapons, it would be necessary to close down the reactor; to decontaminate the fissionable material of its radioactive fission products; to separate it, in what is a fairly major technical undertaking, from its denaturant; and to establish plants for making atomic weapons.

«The most compelling reason to look seriously at the PRISM is that it can burn all the long - lived actinides in spent nuclear fuel, leaving only fission products with a roughly 300 - year radioactive lifetime.

Dating - The isochron method: Many radioactive dating methods are based on minute additions of daughter products to a rock or mineral in which a Interweaving the relative time scale with the atomic time scale poses certain problems because only certain types of rocks, chiefly the igneous variety

Dating - The isochron method: Many radioactive dating methods are based on minute additions of daughter products to a rock or mineral in which a Humanity has evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee.

It is based on measurement of the product of the radioactive decay of an isotope of potassium (K) into argon (Ar).

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Thorium plants are also subject to explosions of their own: where in - line, high temperature and pressure «reprocessing» produces highly toxic radioactive fissile products.

While thorium itself looks relatively benign compared with uranium, the fuel cycle produces a number of highly radioactive by - products.

If coal ash, a waste product from burning coal to generate power, contains concentrated levels of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and radioactive elements, is it hazardous?

«About 50 % of the heat given off by the Earth is generated by the radioactive decay of elements such as uranium and thorium, and their decay products.

(e.g., tritium, the radioactive isotope of hydrogen, and its decay product, the noble gas isotope 3He).

Your turn: Figure out all of the decay chains to make sure you know the stable end product and whether or not there are any radioactive intermediates.

Coal also contains the radioactive decay products of uranium.

But because the fission products are so radioactive, they decay quickly.

Shaft [underground] mines also have radon, the radioactive gas, in them because radon is a decay product of uranium.