Sentences with phrase «spread radioactivity»

Pripyat was looted soon after the accident, and since everything here is radioactive, all the things that were stolen and sold have spread radioactivity all over the former Soviet Union.

The resulting buildup of dry, loose detritus is a wildfire hazard that poses the threat of spreading radioactivity from the Chernobyl area.

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Fanned by winds that shifted suddenly to the east, the fallout plume spread high levels of radioactivity over an area that stretched for hundreds of kilometers and included several inhabited islands.

It is the latter that leads to a very significant dilution of any radioactivity as it is spread through huge volumes of air, thus significantly reducing its concentration.

It was these regulatory bodies who spread fear about radioactivity.