Sentences with phrase «where radioactivity»
«This is not alchemy where radioactivity disappears.»
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After you swallow the RAI, the radioactive iodine goes to your thyroid, where the radioactivity damages and kills off your thyroid cells.
These canisters would be sent away to a federal repository where the radioactivity dissipates over thousands of years.
Ewing's Russian colleagues, led by Alexander Novikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sampled the groundwater taken from wells up to four kilometers from the scene of original contamination, where radioactivity levels reach roughly 1,000 becquerels (nuclei decaying per second) per liter.
Not exact matches
The element later turned up in uranium ore deposits, where natural radioactivity can produce traces of plutonium.
Experiments funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are now under way on the Carneddau mountains of Snowdonia and the Cumbrian hills at Corneyfell, near Bootle, to see if decontamination zones can be created where lambs can be taken to lose their radioactivity before slaughter.
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.
The natural radioactivity of the Marcellus Shale has caused concern since the mid-1980s, when high levels of radon gas were found in the basements of homes in Marcellus, a town in upstate New York, where the shale reaches the surface.
The Curie historical Museum consists of a permanent exhibition where we can learn about the history of the discovery of radioactivity by Pierre and Marie Curie and its first medical applications with radiotherapy.
It was at Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, where it will remain, encased in steel and concrete, until May 21, 3015, when its radioactivity diminishes to a safe level.