Sentences with phrase «radioactivity makes»

Its ordinarily limited radioactivity makes plutonium safe for terrorists or other thieves to transport with little risk of radiation injury.

The radioactivity made it possible to identify several different receptors, including the receptor for adrenaline.

Not exact matches

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

Researchers made compounds of neptunium — which is difficult to work with owing to its high radioactivity — and examined them to learn more about its properties and behaviour.

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.

Pierre Curie's vital contribution and personality are rendered almost invisible, and Emling says little about the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel and the Curies in the 1890s — and botches the references she does make to the Curies» legendary preparation of radium between 1899 and 1902.

• 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.

«First global antineutrino emission map highlights Earth's energy budget: Tiny particles reveal information about Earth's geologic past and human - made radioactivity.»

Nevadans like Democratic Senator Harry Reid, who has doggedly opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, say it makes more sense to leave such waste where it is than to risk transporting it across the nation's public highways and rail system, during which accidents or even terrorist attacks could expose untold numbers of Americans to radioactivity.

What makes the ingots equally valuable to physicists is the fact that over the past 2,000 years their lead has almost completely lost its natural radioactivity.

«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.»

Made less than a decade after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, the movie is obsessed with issues such as radioactivity (the Godzilla monster itself is radioactive) and the morality of producing super-weapons (one is finally used to destroy Godzilla, but its maker is reluctant for it to be used).

We measure the amount of radioactivity emitted by your cat's thyroid everyday to make sure the thyroid has adequate radioiodine to be effective.

When your cat's radioactivity level is below the legal limit to send home, we will contact you to make an appointment for discharge.

The human assault on the planet usually does not make headlines unless there is a sudden calamity — giant fires in Indonesia or radioactivity escaping from a nuclear plant in Chernobyl.

Some tokamak proponents contend that structure might be made out of an exotic material that will have low induced radioactivity.

For something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivity.

Per unit of electricity made, Australian coal already releases more radioactivity than nuclear plants ever will.