Sentences with phrase «with radioactive substances»
Food laced with radioactive substances would be fed to the subjects and an attempt made to monitor their physical condition over the ensuing years.
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Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.
FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who made 50 straight passes at a Dunes crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.
Very recently a new technique called positron emission transverse tomography has been developed that makes it possible to detect from outside the skull the presence of deoxyglucose or other substances labeled with positron emission radioactive isotopes.
Hayes, along with Sergey Sholom of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, tested this idea with two AAA battery sized capsules of radioactive substances — cobalt - 60 and cesium - 137.
Gummer approved limits for the amounts of radioactive substances that can be released from the Sellafield complex with a few minor changes.
A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a method for the remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances.
They sent soil samples for DNA testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays, which involve feeding the soil microorganisms a food source which has been labelled with radioactive carbon, which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.
«We are not set up to take radioactive substances,» said Patricia Pastella, commissioner of the Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection, which operates the Metropolitan plant in Syracuse, N.Y. «It does present a problem with disposal.»
Eliminate (100 %) hazardous substances: Phase out harmful substances and chemicals and radioactive substances linked with persistent and / or irreversible damage to humans and the environment.
Intended as a critique of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, and eventually becoming the go to example for illustrating the difficulty of describing quantum states, Albert Einstein's buddy devised the following scenario: a cat, a Geiger counter containing a trace amount of radioactive substance, and a flask filled with poison are placed in a sealed and shielded box.
The green movement was, in these cases, able to move public opinion with fears about «frankenfood», and the effects of invisible, radioactive substances also finding their way into our bodies.
Peters, along with Paul Rice, advised NuGeneration on drafting environmental and operational permit applications for radioactive substances activity, combustion activity and waste discharge activity pertaining to its new nuclear power station in West Cumbria.