Sentences with phrase «with radioactive materials»

But a new study on the radiation emitted by everyday objects highlights the fact that we interact with radioactive materials every day.

That means 36 states with reactors, hospitals and other industry with radioactive materials have no place to send much of their waste.

Researchers will train graduate students, postdoctoral scientists and engineers to plan, set up and conduct safe and efficient experiments with radioactive materials.

There have been several leaks of water contaminated with radioactive materials from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

Special routes have been designated that keep the truck traffic out of the town centre, but people in many residential areas will have to get used to the sight of tightly sealed trucks filled with radioactive material passing by their front door.

When a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded, it coated the earth with radioactive material — as far as the picturesque, snow - capped mountains of Scandanavia, where for generations, the indigenous Sami people lived in harmony with nature.

When a mother gets a lung scan, or lymphangiogram with radioactive material, or a bone scan, it is usually done with technetium (though other materials are possible).

A dirty bomb combines conventional explosives with radioactive material.

Most of the experiments were carried out in the laboratories at Idaho, which provided a safe area to work with radioactive material.

Indeed, the most pressing nuclear hazard appears to be a «dirty bomb» — a conventional bomb packed with radioactive material — or a small nuclear explosive.

«Everyone said it was one of the biggest chemical messes they had seen with radioactive materials, formaldehyde, explosives, and improperly stored chemicals,» Ney tells Next Wave.

In 1999, researchers discovered significant levels of iron - 60 in Earth's deep - sea crusts, indicating that sometime in our planet's tumultuous past, it had been sprayed with the radioactive material.

In the original version of the thought experiment, which Schrödinger came up with in 1935 to discredit what he felt were apparent contradictions in the interpretation of quantum mechanics, a cat is trapped in a sealed box along with radioactive material and a vial of poison that will shatter if an atom of the radioactive substance decays.

He clones Superman with radioactive material to create Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow), a being just as powerful as the man of steel.

No matter where you live on Earth, you most likely interact with radioactive materials every day.

Investigative Post reported in July 2016 that government documents show the federal Department of Energy and state health and environmental officials have known for almost four decades that at least 60 properties throughout Niagara County and Grand Island are contaminated with radioactive material that resembles gravel.

He envisions underground vaults filled with radioactive materials, rather like a walk - in x-ray machine: «You could drop in whole packaged food products and have them emerge stable,» he asserts.