Sentences with phrase «radioactivity so»

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Even the so - called «clean» H - bombs, in addition to the immediate casualties they would create, produce appreciable quantities of radioactivity.

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.

He probably created radioactivity to begin with, so isotope ratios are likely just some of his lies.

And the usual approach is disturbingly low tech: human beings scrub radioactivity off walls, cars, and so on with soap and water.

Every country has its own ways, and so it is very interesting to see how departments here deal with safety, or work with radioactivity or animals, for example.

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.

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

The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health risk — especially outside the immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl.

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.

So far, accelerator experiments have repeatedly confirmed the predictions of the standard model, which encompasses all discovered particles, the Higgs and three of the fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism; the weak force that controls radioactivity; and the strong force that binds quarks together.

Geologists say radioactivity levels can vary across the Marcellus, but the tests taken so far suggest the amount of radioactive material measured in New York is far higher than in many other places.

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

Arthur Lachenbruch has shown that millions of years of surface erosion would destroy the correlation unless radioactivity decreased exponentially with depth.121 If so, too much time would be required for the deeper heat generated to reach the surface.

Store waste in a well - ventilated space away from your primary living areas, and hold for an additional 2 weeks so natural decay will reduce radioactivity to background levels.

Borehold disposal is irretrievable, but has the Titanic demonstrability of fail - safeness in its favour: whatever vessels are put down the holes, if they leak, will have a similar task before them, if they are to pollute the strata above them with radioactivity, as saltshakers in the Titanic would have if they were to try, so to speak, to oversalt the ocean.