Sentences with phrase «radioactivity scale»

Not exact matches

It successfully explained phenomena such as radioactivity and antimatter, and no other theory can match its description of how light and particles behave on small scales.

«Depending on the equipment used, this method could scale to detect radioactivity at distances of at least tens of kilometers and possibly as far as 100 km,» says Professor Choi.

Ever since the reactor at Chernobyl exploded in 1986 spewing radioactivity over more than 20 countries, Europeans have lived in fear of another large - scale nuclear disaster.

However, it was shut down only four months later after about 700 kilograms of liquid sodium leaked from the secondary cooling loop and, although there were no injuries and no radioactivity escaped plant buildings, this was compounded by operator attempts to cover up the scale of the damage.

Interweaving the relative time scale with the atomic time scale poses certain problems because only certain types of rocks, chiefly the igneous variety Looking for radioactivity?

But it's the nuclear stuff that would bring real panic, large - scale evacuation, and frantic cleanup efforts wherever the tiniest trace of radioactivity could be detected.