Sentences with phrase «radioactivity from»

Injury or Disease directly or indirectly caused by or contributed by ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from burning nuclear fuel.

Ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste, from combustion of nuclear fuel, the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any nuclear assembly or nuclear component of such assembly.

NUCLEAR RISK - Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Loss or damage due to ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel is excluded from the insurance plan.

Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Ioinising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel OR

Any bodily injury to the Insured person, consequential loss, legal liability, directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the Combustion of nuclear fuel.

For any claim arising from damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expenses whatsoever resulting or arising from or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste from the combustion fuel or the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof.

Cancer resulting from any congenital condition, pre-existing condition; biological, nuclear, or chemical contamination; contact with radiation or radioactivity from any non-diagnostic or therapeutic source

Any liability caused by or due to consequential event due to ionising, radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from, any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

The «three to four orders of magnitude» says that the added radioactivity from the Fukushima accident is, give or take, 1,000 — 10,000 times less important than natural radioactivity.

Every cubic meter of air and water and every hectare of land now have a human imprint, from hormones in the seas, to fluorocarbons in the atmosphere and radioactivity from nuclear weapons tests in the soil.

Skip to around the 40th second to cut to an astonishing battle fought over the «dread to risk» gap in considering whether minute traces of radioactivity from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors posed a threat to Americans.

Ultimately the lead scientist concluded that «there was no indication that the radioactivity from Fukushima became incorporated in the coastal kelp beds sampled.»

Treatment plants in Pennsylvania are accepting Fortuna wastewater with much lower levels of radioactivity from the company's wells there, Kessy said, but if plants can't take the higher concentrations, it could be crippling.

The resulting buildup of dry, loose detritus is a wildfire hazard that poses the threat of spreading radioactivity from the Chernobyl area.

Some forest mushrooms, such as wild porcini, can accumulate dangerous levels of radioactivity from the soils they grow in.

Very high levels of radioactivity from radon gas have been found in abandoned mines used by prospectors in Southwest England.

On average, radioactivity from such an accident could force approximately 8 million people to relocate and result in $ 2 trillion in damages.

The CDMS experiment is, expressed simply, nothing more than a cylindrical icebox covered with shielding and placed in a clean room to keep naturally occurring radioactivity from contaminating it.

Growth rings in «the loneliest tree on the planet,» an isolated Sitka spruce on Campbell Island, still bear traces of radioactivity from atomic bomb testing in the 1950s and 1960s.

From custom - made hand - held computers to instruments that can detect the faintest radioactivity from a piece of dust, the nuclear inspector's tool kit would make James Bond envious.

«We see articles in prestigious news outlets claiming that radioactivity from cosmic rays and rocks is more dangerous than the radiation emanating from the collapsing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.»

Not exact matches

But, in the interests of consistency, we shall only invent new objects when we can not escape from doing so; usually, it is sufficient slightly to modify the description of our previous objects, e.g., when we modify the definition of the atom to accommodate it to new observations about radioactivity or atom - smashing, or new types of chemical combination.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill occurred and identify its source.

The thick, dark border offered psychological protection from radioactivity.

Nuclear power, many people think, is inseparable from a volatile, invariably lime - green, mutant - making radioactivity.

The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons: Springfield abounds with signs of radioactivity, from the strange glow surrounding Mr. Burn's nuclear power plant workers to Homer's low sperm count.

And from the moment it is manufactured an emulsion begins to collect random particle tracks from cosmic rays and terrestrial radioactivity

Chesser says some of his group's studies of mice exposed to radioactivity around Chernobyl hint at hormesis: Small exposures over 10 to 45 days, they found, appeared to temper damage from an acute radiation dose delivered in the lab later.

Radioactivity and heat from the nuclear fuel have fallen substantially in the past 5 years, he says.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

«Our analysis confirms that this accumulation of radioactivity is derived from the disposal of conventional oil and gas wastewater after 2011, when authorities limited the disposal of unconventional oil and gas wastewater,» said Nancy Lauer, a Nicholas School PhD student who led the study.

Eleven tons of lead and two tons of polyethylene shield the detectors, which weigh just a few pounds, from any radioactivity in the surrounding rock that could create a false signal.

Its long burial beneath seafloor sediments isolated it from cosmic rays that could have triggered WIMP - masking radioactivity within the lead.

«When I received a letter from Berkeley,» Segre tells us, «I measured its radioactivity before opening it.»

After the glass logs solidify the waste is trapped and should be isolated from the environment for long enough for most of the radioactivity to decay to safe levels.

Soil samples collected downstream from spill sites contained higher levels of radioactivity than soil at the spill sites themselves, Lauer noted.

To shield the detector as much as possible from natural radioactivity in the cavern, the detector (a so - called Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber) sits within a cryostat submersed in a tank of water.

• Water leaking from at least one of the reactors shows high levels of radioactivity, suggesting a potential core breach that could make the plant even more radioactive.

So far, most of the radioactivity has come from iodine - 131 which has a half - life of eight days.

AMONG the hail of subatomic particles hitting the Earth from space are a few monsters: single particles with incredibly high energies of around 1020 electronvolts, 100,000 billion times as much as typical particles emitted through radioactivity.

There is not enough radioactivity in the core to account for this, so scientists now speculate that the planet may either be shrinking at the rate of a few centimetres a year, or that the vast quantities of helium in the atmosphere are separating out from the hydrogen and slowly sinking.

Ewing's Russian colleagues, led by Alexander Novikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sampled the groundwater taken from wells up to four kilometers from the scene of original contamination, where radioactivity levels reach roughly 1,000 becquerels (nuclei decaying per second) per liter.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

The move marks the first time an Indian university has been completely barred from using radioactivity, and research and teaching there are likely to suffer.

There is also an estimated 37 x 10 ^ 18 becquerels worth of radioactivity in the oceans from naturally dissolved uranium in seawater anyway, which some view as a future nuclear fuel source but is not generally considered a health risk.

D. audaxviator takes a third path: It draws its energy from the radioactivity of uranium in the rock in the mine.

Sheep being moved from a restricted area that are found to have radioactivity higher than 1000 becquerels per kilogram are deemed ineligible for slaughter for their meat, and are marked with paint.