Sentences with phrase «radioactive sources»

For example, we have radioactive sources in the science labs.

Both experiments used detectors made of gallium, and when researchers calibrated them with radioactive sources, they counted too few electron neutrinos, suggesting they were quickly morphing into sterile ones.

With dwindling radioactive sources, NASA turns to solar panels to siphon power in the darkest parts of our solar system.

India's atomic energy establishment should be held responsible for having lost track of an orphan radioactive source, he insists.

In January, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that unidentified thieves had stolen «low - level radioactive sources» from a safe at El Dabaa, the planned site of Egypt's first nuclear power plant.

«Before this, there used to be a contradiction between [reactor and radioactive source] experiments but now they are in agreement,» says Giunti.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

Collaborated with the rig operators to create a safe work procedure for working with MWD radioactive sources and document regular safety audits identifying potential hazardous zones on the rig

The lasers themselves could be located up to a few hundred meters away from the radioactive source, Isaacs said, as long as line - of - sight was maintained and the air was not too turbulent or polluted with aerosols.

Its ability to ionise air made it easy to detect and led to a surprising discovery: even when no radioactive source was present, detectors revealed the presence of some other radiation that was ionising the air.

India's nuclear watchdog, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in Mumbai, labeled the incident a «serious violation» and banned the University of Delhi from using any radioactive sources for several months.

«With the existing technologies, remote detection of radioactive materials is impossible when the measurement location is far from the radioactive source,» says Dongsung Kim (Combined M.S. / Ph.D. student of Physics), the first author of the study.

In their study, published in the May issue of the journal, Nature Communications, Professor Eunmi Choi of Natural Science and her team demonstrated a method with higher sensitivity that uses high - power pulsed electromagnetic - waves to detect a radioactive source.

Shaun Baker wondered if a smoke alarm would require specialised disposal as it contained a radioactive source.

Rejecting the university's plea to continue using radioactive sources in its labs, AERB Chairman Shri S. S. Bajaj told the Press Trust of India that «Delhi University had sought more time from AERB but the Board's Standing Committee, that reviews unusual occurrences at radiation facilities, has decided not to extend the time and withdrawn the authorization to use radioactive source in its laboratories.»

A cat is placed in a box with a vial of cyanide and a radioactive source.

Giunti says that the magnitude of the anomaly uncovered by Lasserre is not statistically significant on its own, but that it points promisingly in the same direction as another anomaly found by the SAGE collaboration, which studied neutrinos from a radioactive source at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory in the Caucasus in 2005.

To accumulate positrons, the researchers use a new device that collects them from a radioactive source.

In their study, published in the May issue of the prestigious journal, Nature Communications, Professor Eunmi Choi of Natural Science and her team demonstrated a method with higher sensitivity that uses high - power pulsed electromagnetic - waves to detect a radioactive source.

Yet the Russians have discovered that many of their unattended RTG generators have vanished, sometimes to turn up in the hands of the unwitting, such as the two hunters who used a navigation beacon power source to warm themselves in the dead of winter, having stripped off everything but the radioactive source from the unit in question.

Further, to ensure the radioactive source was producing genuinely random pulses, Pierce and Miller attached a battery to their data collector to compare.