Sentences with phrase «radioactivity released»

«The radioactivity released by dirty bombs is not life threatening,» says Angelo Acquista, former medical director of the Office of Emergency Management in New York City and author of The Survival Guide: What to Do in a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency.

This is almost twice the radioactivity released at Chernobyl, according to Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, by Kate Brown, a history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Local opponents of the storage, such as Tom Clements, director of SRS Watch, contend the facility was never built for holding plutonium and say there is a risk of leakage and accidents in which large amounts of radioactivity are released.

There was no release of radioactivity and no threat to the public.

He said there was no release of radioactivity and no danger to workers or the public.

The Fukushima nuclear accident resulted in the largest ever accidental release of radioactivity to the oceans.

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

And we're hoping that all of the barriers to release of radioactivity will not fail.»

A fresh explosion has rocked the nuclear reprocessing plant at Chelyabinsk in Russia, releasing 7.4 million becquerels of radioactivity up a ventil - ation shaft.

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.

One type of radioactivity, called beta decay, releases either a positron and a neutrino or an electron and an antineutrino.

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

By comparison, the Chernobyl accident released an estimated 50 million curies of 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.»

Your pet can be released from the Thyro - Cat facility when the monitoring process indicates the I - 131 radioactivity has decreased to a level considered safe by State and Federal Agencies.

Such an event could be a massive release of radiation due to a plant meltdown or a terrorist attack, and could kill tens of thousands of people as well as poison large areas with radioactivity.

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

For the purpose of this Exclusion; i) Utilization of Nuclear weapons of mass destruction means the use of any explosive nuclear weapon or device or the emission, discharge, dispersal, release or escape of fissile material emitting a level of radioactivity capable of causing incapacitating disablement or death amongst people or animals (including in connection with Terrorist Activity).

For the purpose of this Exclusion; ii) Utilization of Nuclear weapons of mass destruction means the use of any explosive nuclear weapon or device or the emission, discharge, dispersal, release or escape of fissile material emitting a level of radioactivity capable of causing incapacitating disablement or death amongst people or animals (including in connection with Terrorist Activity).