Sentences with phrase «with radioactive contamination»

Xiao and the board members of his company were all contaminated with radioactive contamination and all became the body of the 10 - year - old child.

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In fact, a plume of radioactive contamination would spread for kilometers around the stricken nuclear power plant, shifting with the wind and weather.

You can wash off the contamination with soap and water — the traditional method — but that creates sizable reservoirs of radioactive runoff, which in turn has to be trapped, treated, and stored away for centuries.

Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

«The risk of reactors cracking open in a crash could be reduced by jettisoning them before impact and bringing them down with parachutes,» he told the Times of London, adding that, in the worst - case scenario, if the armor plating around the reactor was pierced «there would be a risk of radioactive contamination over a few square miles.»

St. Louis County is teaming up with federal scientists to assess health risks from radioactive contamination in and around Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis County.

The «Fukushima Plate» is an «ordinary kitchen plate with built - in radioactive meter to visualize your food's level of contamination.