Sentences with phrase «radioactive sources in»

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.

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

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Standing Committee, that reviews unusual occurrences at radiation facilities, has decided not to extend the time and withdrawn the authorization to use radioactive source in its laboratories.»

Not exact matches

Indian Point officials will send a camera - equipped robot into pipes beneath the nuclear power plant next week to try to find the source of radioactive material showing up in the groundwater below the plant.

261 Kent Avenue and Luis Garden Acosta (building photo source: PropertyShark) A radioactive waste storage facility at 261 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg may have...

In the United States at the Nevada test site, radioactive elements moved 1.3 kilometers from their source in just 30 years: significantly more than what was predicted from theoretical calculationIn the United States at the Nevada test site, radioactive elements moved 1.3 kilometers from their source in just 30 years: significantly more than what was predicted from theoretical calculationin just 30 years: significantly more than what was predicted from theoretical calculations.

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

Now researchers from the University of Maryland have proposed a new technique to remotely detect the radioactive materials in dirty bombs or other sources.

The EPR authors described a source, such as a radioactive nucleus, that shot out pairs of particles with the same speed but in opposite directions.

Visible from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.

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.

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 sourcIn 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 sourcin 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.

In the study, Professor Choi and her research team described the experimental demonstration of real - time radioactive material detection using a high - power pulsed millimetre - wave source.

A trace amount of radioactive xenon - 133 has already arrived in California at a level one - millionth the dose received from natural sources like bricks.

The Hebrew University team of scientists have shown that these contradicting observations can be reconciled if the source of radioactive plutonium (as well as other rare elements, such as gold and uranium) is in mergers of binary neutron stars.

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.

They made use of uranium - 233 as a source of Th - 229m, which is produced in the radioactive alpha decay of uranium - 233.

They sent soil samples for DNA testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays, which involve feeding the soil microorganisms a food source which has been labelled with radioactive carbon, which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.

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 sourcIn 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 sourcin 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.

By combining RPO results with analyses of radiocarbon (a radioactive isotope of carbon with a half - life of 5,730 years) and stable carbon isotopes, scientists can identify the sources and ages of organic matter in the environment.

In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).

A blue - green algae that dates back as a food source for the Aztecs in 16th century Mexico, spirulina has been shown as an effective chelating agent for removing toxins such as mercury, as well as radioactive substances from the body.

A main source of the 44 trillion watts of heat that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive isotopes in the mantle and crust What is the «half - life» of a radioactive element?

A main source of the 44 trillion watts of heat that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive isotopes in the mantle and crust Alpha Decay.

The energy source for geothermal electricity generation is the tremendous heat flowing from the Earth's core and mantle and from radioactive isotopes decaying in the Earth's crust.

But it offers no viable solutions to the raft of problems plaguing nuclear power, such as the erosion of public trust in this energy source in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, difficulties over the disposal of radioactive waste and the problem - plagued nuclear fuel recycling program.

19 I. 3 Sources of Energy Solar energy (99.985 %)-- comes from sun (nuclear reactions in sun) Drives wind, ocean currents, and waves Geothermal energy -LRB-.013 %)-- originates as heat from within Earth from decaying radioactive material.

Earthquakes also release stored elastic potential energy in rocks, a kind of mechanical potential energy which has been produced ultimately from the same radioactive heat sources.

From the feds comes news that wind power had its best - ever year last year, while from The University of California - Berkeley, an analysis suggests solar energy could supply up to a third of the electrical energy used in the Western U.S. Neither comes close to meaning that fossil - or radioactive - powered sources are going away — the solar energy proposal puts the effective date at 2050 — but then they aren't pipe dreams, either.

It is very likely that Fukushima was and remains a cover - story for the real source of radioactive poisoning in the Pacific — and that is the unchecked and massive amount of nuclear waste dumped there by the US Navy.

Place a moon - like solid object (no or infinitesimal amounts of liquids and gases) with a small internal radioactive - decay source of thermal energy in space isolated from all other matter.