Sentences with phrase «radioactivity into»

A molecule - sized time bomb that smuggles a triple dose of deadly radioactivity into cancer cells has been developed.

The Mayak releases included «repeated planned discharges of radioactivity into the Techa River» as well as «many unexpected, so - called «wild overflows» and breakdowns».

Places like the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of Times Square, would dump radioactivity into the Hudson long after the lights went out.

Not exact matches

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

This is the case because even when fission is stopped by driving neutron - absorbing control rods into a reactor core, radioactivity still warms the fuel rods.

Sharif said that no radioactivity was released into the atmosphere, and that the yields were «as expected.»

«But the quantity of radioactivity leaking into the environment would be just as large.»

This was enough to shut the facility down for recovery, but very little radioactivity — a few milliCuries — escaped into the environment.

He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for inducing radioactivity in matter by slamming neutrons into atoms.

They fear that uranium mining in the area could lead to the release of radioactivity and heavy metals like selenium into the Colorado River and its watershed, including within Grand Canyon National Park.

By the time the water reaches this area and is taken up into seafood, radioactivity is probably well diluted below what is probably dangerous for human consumption, but marine biologist Nicholas Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York says that the study will be a useful baseline to understand how radiation is dispersed in the specific ocean patterns and sea life of the Pacific.

The question has long been, if the Marcellus can cause radioactive gas to seep into people's basements, how much radioactivity might be infused into the water left over from drilling?

«This strategy may allow better penetration of larger tumours because the radioisotope can make its way deep into the tumour before releasing the toxic radioactivity trapped inside.»

An experiment performed by scientists at the Institute of Academy of Kiev confirmed that radioactivity prevalent in the rice from the Fukushima region went down once the rice has been placed into Agnihotra ash water.

The documents show that the agency dropped some plans to model radioactivity in drilling wastewater being discharged by treatment plants into rivers upstream from drinking water intake plants.