The IRSN said eating tens of kilos of the Belarus mushrooms would expose a consumer to a radioactivity level similar to natural ambient radioactivity during a whole year.
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To understand this, you must first understand radioactivity and decay.
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Marie Curie conducts experiments on radioactivity in her laboratory, 18603.
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Yet even radioactivity is not Glencore's biggest problem in Congo.
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And what causes radioactivity... and, potentially, the end of days?
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Radioactivity is everywhere, and most of it is naturally occurring.
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That basically leaves two viable options for dealing with radioactivity.
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Six of the seven were powered by radioactivity from plutonium.
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"Radioaktivität kennt keine Grenzen", one banner read: radioactivity knows no borders.
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Their work covering radioactivity earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Greenpeace's survey found radioactivity readings taken at J-Village on Oct.
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Its scientists have had a leading role in the study of radioactivity.
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Radioactivity sensors are easy to hack and not likely to get fixed.
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Colonies: Regions of land that have been decimated by pollution and radioactivity.
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Workers who built the sarcophagus were exposed to high levels of radioactivity.
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IAEA inspectors took soil samples to try and find evidence of radioactivity.
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The first information came from Sweden, which detected a rise in radioactivity.
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Radioactivity is present in different amounts in everything from muscles to masonry.
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So you were aware of Bowie playing Radioactivity on his tour in '20123.
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Wellerstein: And you could detect the radioactivity in fish for thousands of miles.
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The radioactivity of these newly created elements keeps the fireball hot and glowing.
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Assendelft added EGLE is also using boats to test water samples for radioactivity.
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Many environmentalists nonetheless don't support it because of fears about safety and radioactivity.
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Instead of having a support band he played the entirety of Kraftwerk's Radioactivity album.
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The first information came from sensors in Sweden, which detected a rise in radioactivity.
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Pontoon barges doused in radioactivity be damned: Russia's ready to build more nuclear weapons.
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Cesium-2202's properties, along with its high radioactivity, make a RDD incident likely.
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One of his targets is a common model of radioactivity sensor at nuclear power facilities.
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"We could survey the bones and we could see the radioactivity in them," he added.
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Measuring the radioactivity induced in the manganese would tell Fermi if the fissions were multiplying.
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The town's attitude about radioactivity is much more realistic and pragmatic than it would be elsewhere.
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They were worried the animals might try to follow their owners, spreading radioactivity in the process.
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But experts and advocacy groups are still fiercely debating the health and environmental consequences of radioactivity.
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This was in the 1930s, because in that time, radioactivity was seen as something very healthy.
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For the interior of the Earth, this thermal energy comes from two sources: gravity and radioactivity.
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"Since the 1990s I've realized that radioactivity isn't the problem there," he said in an interview.
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"Since the 1990s I've realized that radioactivity isn't the problem there," he said in an interview.
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For "Radioactivity," his fall/winter 1998 collection, the designer went beyond just finding inspiration in music.
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That would take detecting the plume of radioactivity that underground nuclear explosions sometimes puff into the air.
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At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife In the end, Byers' RadiThor addiction killed him.
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Evans was an expert at measuring and mathematically modeling the human body's uptake and excretion of radioactivity.
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Following the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011, the threat of radioactivity has caused a significant dip in sales.
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Rates of radioactivity were measured to be between 1 and 10 millibecquerels per cubic meter of air.
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The authors of the study recommend that facilities should test deceased patients for radioactivity prior to cremation.
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That said, it is still necessary to keep a close watch over radioactivity levels from the accident.
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The radioactivity levels recorded in the groundwater are the highest ever detected at Indian Point, Sheehan said.
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Some of the areas of elevated radioactivity almost touched private homes, as well as fields and greenhouses.
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Think about all that delicious radioactivity you'll be ingesting next time you reach for the fruit bowl.
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When Charette and Buesseler visited, they focused on measuring radioactivity found in seawater, groundwater, and seafloor samples.
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Marie Curie was the first woman to win the prize in 1903, for the discovery of radioactivity.
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In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win the prize, for her discovery of radioactivity.
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Selling an item as producing negative ions is a way to rebrand radioactivity as a health benefit.
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North Korea's nuclear facilities are "hot," and bombing them could have untold consequences in terms of radioactivity.
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Chernobyl released 400 times more radioactivity into the atmosphere than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 653.
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In fact, as I previously wrote in an article for Symmetry magazine, even your own body produces radioactivity.
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This attracted the attention of the researchers, who are left wondering if it's somehow related to the radioactivity.
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Glencore's operating subsidiary, Katanga Mining, has found uranium with "low levels of radioactivity" in its cobalt hydroxide product.
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The three shirts, made by Aerochromics, are each built to detect either carbon monoxide, particle pollution, or radioactivity.
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Altogether, the tanks contain twice the radioactivity of what was released during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Russia.
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Cataloged areas of radioactivity are represented by walls of luminous graphs running across contaminated landscapes like cautionary fences.
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Radioactivity levels "thin out" quickly at these depths and there are few fish in the area, she said.
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In the decades since, no excess radioactivity was ever detected, which means the protective shell did its job.
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"These levels are so low, way below the natural radioactivity that's everywhere in the world," Mr. Pravikoff said.
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As a result, many of the animals contain levels of radioactivity far beyond the European Union limit for consumption.
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Underground water, kept warm by Pluto's radioactivity, then flooded this area of thin crust like water in a blister.
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In addition, Brown notes, the berries can be labeled organic, since radioactivity is not covered under common organic designations.
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As revealed in the season 1 episode "A Woman's Place," inorganic farming and radioactivity are to blame for declining fertility.
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They include Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie, who took the prize in 1903 for her pioneering work in radioactivity.
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This and subsequent bomb tests have left global markers of radioactivity that ought still to be evident in 10,000 years.
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That led him to conclude that the radiation was coming from space, and not radioactivity from rocks in the earth.
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Radioactivity was measured after three different stages: after an overnight fast, a tasteless high-calorie nutritional drink, and, finally, pizza.
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Guitarist/singer Jeff Burke has kept busy with Radioactivity and Lost Balloons, and bassist Joe Ayoub plays in Low Culture.
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However, in the past decade population biologists have made considerable progress in documenting how radioactivity affects plants, animals and microbes.
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Lockton argues that the NRA brought the troubles on itself, by amping up its rhetoric to the point of radioactivity.
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Its ordinarily limited radioactivity makes plutonium safe for terrorists or other thieves to transport with little risk of radiation injury.
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And that's a problem, because the destruction a bomb causes and the radioactivity it produces are both connected to its yield.
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Based on Byers' self-reported RadiThor consumption, Evans' model had predicted that Byers' body would contain about 100,000 becquerel of radioactivity.
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Now a new kind of radioactivity could head to her ancestral home in the remote Flinders Ranges - a nuclear waste dump.
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Workers detected elevated radioactivity near Bo Ross's old home on Expedition Drive and a cluster near apartments at 1413 Flounder Court.
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Scientist Bruce Banner was conducting experiments on radioactivity when a teenager trespasses on government property where the experiments are being held.
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It provides extra care facilities and attention for the consequences of exposure to radioactivity for first, second, and third generation victims.
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Radioactivity began spewing into the air as the meltdown progressed and the water from the spent fuel pools began to leak.
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Curie also received recognition for her work in radioactivity and was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes ever.
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I can't say more—it's a surprise—but please let us know if your child is allergic to anything, including radioactivity.
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The new study suggests that the Mayak facility likely released 250 terabecquerels (a measurement of radioactivity) of ruthenium into the atmosphere.
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The long-range torpedo with a monster warhead is apparently meant to shower coastal regions with deadly radioactivity, leaving cities uninhabitable.
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After all, radioactivity is a property of some matter, like very heavy metals, in which they spontaneously spit out high-energy particles.
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"We instructed hospitals in Basra to be alert to any burn cases caused by radioactivity and inform security forces immediately," said one.
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If you were to encounter such a spider, "the radioactivity will be relatively low and won't transmit much to you," Dennin said.
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Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in Buffalo examines the nuclear past and future of the United States.
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We asked our friends at Southampton University, who have an amazing radio-analytical laboratory, to see if they could find any radioactivity.
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According to King, the only warnings about radioactivity were a few signs telling residents not to water their livestock in the wash.
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Sacks are sometimes moved from one facility to another, based on their levels of radioactivity, which vary and can shift over time.
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"There has been NO abnormal release of radioactivity from the station and emergency staff are responding to the situation," the alert said.
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Analyzing a Warren stump speech without making reference to substance is akin to writing a biography of Marie Curie without mentioning radioactivity.
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The EGLE posted on Twitter that it was actively investigating the site Friday by taking radioactivity measurements and footage of the area.
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Photo by Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA The findings near Japan suggested that the nuclear plant is still leaking radioactivity into the sea, however.
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In between those years, Marie Curie did groundbreaking research on radioactivity, Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic, and Valentina Tereshkova went into space.
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The prosecutors, who called their investigation "Operation Radioactivity", accuse the group of forming a cartel, money-laundering and conducting a fraudulent bidding process.
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Relearning radioactivity lesson The shame of this was that the dangers of ingested radium were already known, even before Byers started taking RadiThor.
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In the 1930s physicists discovered that radioactivity could, in essence, be reversed by bombarding atoms with subatomic particles to increase their atomic numbers.
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He said it was obviously a model because Kim and others would not stand near an actual device because of concerns about radioactivity.
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It's about the 1986 nuclear disaster that has left a chunk of Ukraine unsafe for human life due to high levels of radioactivity.
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The majority of these strays are homeless, and up until recently people were warned against even petting them due to fear of radioactivity.
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His father retired as the owner of IN/US Service Corporation, a company in Fairfield, N.J., that manufactured instruments used for measuring radioactivity.
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Japan's government is trying a new way to keep groundwater from becoming contaminated with radioactivity at the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
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The only time a woman was awarded the prize before that was in 1903 when Marie Curie won for her work on radioactivity.
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They marked the way to the fallout shelters where millions of Americans were to take refuge from the deadly radioactivity of thermonuclear explosions.
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"These low levels of radioactivity do not pose a health hazard to the population," the German radiation protection office said on Nov. 10.
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In another, a Phoenix jeweler used a captive to insure against damage caused by the radioactivity of a dirty bomb or nuclear waste.
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It conducted its own radiation surveys in 1981 and 1989 but found no abnormal radioactivity, the agency said in a statement to CNN.
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Higher levels of radiation could also mean the robot is getting closer to the precise source of radioactivity to properly remove the melted fuel.
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"Operation Radioactivity" focused on Eletrobras' Eletronuclear division, which is building a third nuclear-power reactor at Angra dos Reis, west of Rio de Janeiro.
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"This action again highlights the extreme vulnerability of this type of buildings, which contain the highest amount of radioactivity in nuclear plants," Greenpeace said.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that Chernobyl released 653 times more radioactivity into the atmosphere than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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And that has created a whole new environment, and I don't think anyone should be surprised that we are now reacting to his radioactivity.
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It was her second Nobel: In 1903 she shared the physics prize with her husband and another French scientist for their work on radioactivity.
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It was her second Nobel: In 1903, she shared the physics prize with her husband and another French scientist for their work on radioactivity.
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" Still, he said, "if there are reasonable and fairly straightforward and simple things that we can do to minimize radioactivity, why not do that?
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While officials in the United States say the water is free of radioactivity, the city of Windsor on the Canadian side is raising concerns.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that Chernobyl released 400 times more radioactivity into the atmosphere than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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The whirlwind of viral stories about the dog program sometimes play up their radioactivity to the point of inaccuracy, but they also help CFF's visibility.
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The elevated levels of radioactivity were first noted earlier this week after results from routine testing of the special groundwater monitoring wells at the facility.
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The resulting radioactivity is too small to have any serious impact on Earth's atmosphere, but it seems this isotope is more resilient than anyone thought.
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In an attempt to visualize the high radiation levels in these areas, Greenpeace photographer Greg McNevin overlaid measurement graphs of radioactivity onto long-exposure photographs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After prolonged dormancy, Cold War-era tropes about the dangers of radioactivity have exploded back into the popular consciousness.
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While radioactivity from Fukushima will probably not hurt those seeking California wines from 2011 and later, the lesson, as always, is to drink in moderation.
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On the flickering screen, I have been watching various iterations of the infamous nuclear cloud spraying radioactivity into the atmosphere above Nevada or the Pacific.
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Depending on the amount of radioactivity in the soil, the resulting images contain a few white dots or enough to create nebula-like white splotches.
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For now, all the scientists, engineers, and their allies can do is keep the radioactivity under control, track down its source, and try to capture it.
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But just one day later, hot particles were found outside of the fenced-off demolition site — an ominous sign that the radioactivity had not been contained.
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That trio had "alpha" radiation levels, one of the more intense and dangerous types of radioactivity, of more than 10,000 disintegrations per minute, the report found.
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SGS said the radioactive content of the stolen device was most likely very weak, putting its strength at nine curies, a conventional unit for measuring radioactivity.
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And in parts of central, eastern, and northern Europe many animals, plants, and mushrooms still contain so much radioactivity that they are unsafe for human consumption.
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Then, the PET scan measured how the radioactivity built up in their brains, creating images in which lit-up regions meant that tau has built up.
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Because of radioactivity found in Enceladus' core, along with strong tidal forces from Saturn, its interior is warm and it is surrounded by a liquid ocean.
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And in parts of central, eastern and northern Europe many animals, plants and mushrooms still contain so much radioactivity that they are unsafe for human consumption.
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"This action again highlights the extreme vulnerability of this type of buildings, which contain the highest amount of radioactivity in nuclear plants," Greenpeace said, according to Reuters .
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The most common sources of these false positives included cosmic rays, gamma rays, radioactivity from the observatory, molecules in Earth's atmosphere, and emissions from the parent stars.
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Russia is believed to operate a "dead hand" that will automatically launch its nuclear missiles if its seismic, light, radioactivity and pressure sensors detect a nuclear attack.
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The meltdown, explosions and nuclear fire that burned for 10 days injected enormous quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and contaminated vast areas of Europe and Eurasia.
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But while abstract ideological opposition is likely the source of most of his detractors' ire, some individuals have more material concerns about the president's ever-increasing radioactivity.
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We join Kolomitsyn as he tests another bunker for radioactivity and visits the site of the third-largest nuclear meltdown in history, which remained secret for decades.
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They claim to have figured out a way to blast people with enough waves of radioactivity to send them to wherever their lost loved ones have gone.
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One of the wells reported a 65,000 percent increase in the water's level of radioactivity, Mr. Cuomo said, citing a report by Entergy Corporation, which owns the plant.
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Due to the radioactivity in the area, puppies in the region could be harboring radioactive particles on their fur, according to a new documentary titled Puppies of Chernobyl.
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One young man showed Ackermann the tomb of his best friend in a cemetery and said more people in town die because of drugs and alcohol than radioactivity.
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This is not because of the radioactivity — it's blatantly untrue that the dogs are radioactive — but because food and shelter can be so sparse in the harsh winters.
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In one year, you receive a 400 microgray dose from the radioactivity coming from inside of you — as much radiation as you'd get from four chest X-rays.
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Instead, it seeks to contaminate the area where the device is detonated with radioactivity, creating panic and forcing authorities to launch an expensive and time consuming decontamination process.
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The half life of Caesium 137 is 30 years - that is, it takes 30 years for the radioactivity of the isotope to fall to half its original value.
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At a minimum, armed guards should be required at all sites that hold weapons-grade material or enough low-enriched fuel to cause a major release of radioactivity.
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Curie won the prize for physics in 1903 for a study on spontaneous radiation and she won the award for chemistry in 1911 for her work on radioactivity.
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Since the crash, a sample of the 1,700 residents of Palomares has been checked each year for radioactivity in Madrid, under the supervision of the federal nuclear agency.
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The scientific mission's samples show levels of radioactivity at the site up to 800,000 higher than normal, the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority said in a statement.
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Mushrooms, more than any other vegetable, concentrate radioactivity because their thread-like root systems spread over a large area for several meters on the surface around the plant.
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Firstly, unlike Radithor, most of the other "energy" drinks on the market were total frauds and had no radium (or any other type of radioactivity) in them at all.
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But young people in the area do not go surfing any more because they've been repeatedly warned about suspected radioactivity in the water, said surf shop owner Yuichiro Kobayashi.
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Though the U.S. does have rare earth minerals, the process of mining and refining them is difficult and environmentally dangerous (sometimes releasing radioactivity), so very few domestic facilities exist.
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Some waste loses its radioactivity fairly quickly (low-level waste is radioactive for three centuries), but the higher-level stuff won't be safe for hundreds of thousands of years.
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A geological site would see radioactive waste buried at least 200 meters underground in a rock formation that protects it and acts as a barrier against the radioactivity escaping.
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In the case of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility disaster in 2011, Buesseler said it took "less than a week" for winds to blow the radioactivity to California.
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The plaintiffs in Fukushima case have called on defendants for reinstating the levels of radioactivity at their homes before the disaster, but the court rejected the request, Kyodo said.
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The origin of the imported scrap metal is not tracked, and the presence of radioactivity could be accidental or a deliberate way to get rid of contaminated materials, STUK said.
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After all, "aerosol particles containing uranium enriched in uranium-235 are definitely not from a natural source," he writes in the paper, published recently in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.
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Mahathir said expert studies had indicated that the waste was not hazardous to health and that he believed there was a way to further reduce radioactivity, without giving further details.
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While the radioactivity spread by such a device is unlikely to be lethal, it would create huge panic and pollute a vast area that would be very expensive to decontaminate.
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Made of cotton equipped with air sensors and color-changing dyes, the shirts' fabric shifts from black to white when in the presence of radioactivity, carbon monoxide, or particulate pollution.
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The 503 explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, and Korol said that the most asked question from tourists is about safety.
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A third-party lab conducted tests measuring radioactivity in the water and found that they meet state and federal standards, Mosaic said in a statement on its website late on Wednesday.
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The supernova could be fueled by some type of radioactivity, but it would need a staggeringly large source of decaying nickel for that (about 30 times the mass of the Sun).
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Cesium-28500, one of the isotopes that Japan's 6900 Fukushima accident released into the environment, contaminated hundreds of square miles with long-lived radioactivity and forced over 2628,28503 people to relocate.
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The imaging agent was first used in medical applications in the 1960s because its short half-life meant that patients were getting less exposure to radioactivity than from other diagnostic tracers.
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About 4,000 workers are tackling the cleanup, many wearing protective gear, although more than 90% of the plant is deemed to have so little radioactivity that no extra precautions are needed.
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Miniature radioactivity warning signs, graffiti on the walls of abandoned buildings and tables and chairs left scattered inside a small cafe all add to the creepy atmosphere of a once lively town.
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Marie Colvin would've taken an intense interest in what Curie was doing — through the discovery of radioactivity, she led the way warfare to change as well as did great good medical field.
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To be clear, the theft of this particular radiological material isn't that worrying by itself; the disks are sealed and contain less radioactivity than a smoke detector, according to a DOE official.
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Sadly, 11 islands were found to have coconuts and pandanus fruits with radioactivity exceeding limits established by several countries and international organizations, including International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
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It is most certainly not contaminated in a way that would cause a burning sensation in his eyes, but that may be due to something unrelated to the radioactivity in the area.
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"There's still an enormous amount of radioactivity there which is not controlled, in liquid form, leaking into the underground, and slowly moving into the ocean," said Greenpeace Japan campaigner Jan Vande Putte.
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The likely cause of the elevated radioactivity detected was a "spillage of water as a result of a mechanical issue during pumping of water," last month, according to Entergy spokesman Jerry Nappi.
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He had provided data on radioactivity levels to Dr. Kajstura, but the data published in the study had been altered to make the old hearts look the same as the young ones.
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In 1991, Svetlana Dmitrievna, 70, left the Belarus town of Khoiniki, infected by radioactivity from the Chernobyl explosion, to settle in Astravets, one of the few cesium-free areas left in Belarus.
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The Geiger counter picked up a range of radioactivity (primarily the isotope contained in the medicine given to the patient) on equipment in the crematorium: the oven, vacuum filter and bone crusher.
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OTTAWA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario on Sunday reported an "incident" at the Pickering nuclear power station near Toronto but said there had been no abnormal release of radioactivity.
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Another is a set of devices sold as "gate" monitoring system, which check vehicles and humans for radioactivity as they leave nuclear facilities, or to screen cargo that passes through borders and ports.
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Romania, which recorded some of the highest levels during the incident, was also ruled out as a source of the radioactivity on account of its geography and weather patterns observed at the time.
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France's nuclear safety agency had said earlier that the source of the radioactivity was likely coming from Russia's south Urals or from nearby western Kazakhstan, a conclusion supported by Germany's radiation protection agency.
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According to Offutt Air Force Base spokesperson Susan Romano earlier this year, the plane has protection from radioactivity built into it, so that the crew members don't need to wear hazardous material suits.
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If I can get another grant to do that, I'm expecting to see much less biodiversity where the radioactivity is highest, but a higher concentration of a particular fungus that feeds on radiation.
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The governor said water contaminated with tritium had leaked into the groundwater at the plant, causing "alarming levels" of radioactivity to be found at three out of the 40 monitoring wells on the site.
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Some of those toxic remains include the old houses that might contain asbestos, the melted fire detectors that could produce low levels of radioactivity, and any partially burned propane tanks at risk of combusting.
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The statement came after Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said last week that companies interested in acquiring Lynas had pledged to decontaminate low-level radioactivity from mined ore before shipping it to the country.
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Thirty years ago today, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released far more radioactivity than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan did, forcing the resettlement of more than 350,000 people.
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"No worker has been exposed to radiation and no radioactivity was reported outside the plant," said K.S Pradeep Kumar, associate director at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) that oversees nuclear safety in India.
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Tokyo knows from the experience of Fukushima that as the nationwide blackout becomes protracted, within days Japan's nuclear reactors will exhaust their emergency power supplies and begin exploding, contaminating the home islands with radioactivity.
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According to one estimate by a physicians group opposed to nuclear weapons, 2.4 million people could die from cancer caused by the radioactivity from the more than 2,000 known tests that have already taken place.
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Some reports show unexpectedly high levels of radioactivity in the groundwater contamination; North Carolina–based energy giant Duke Energy, for example, found high levels of radium in groundwater contamination at 11 of its 18 coal plants.
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He had only just turned 21.7 when he presented his fall/winter 22013 "Radioactivity" collection, in which models in red shirts and black ties paid overt homage to his teenage years and his love of Kraftwerk.
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It said emergency staff were responding to the &aposincident,&apos but that there had been "NO abnormal release of radioactivity from the station" and that people nearby did not need to take action at the time.
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But the extent of the proposal's radioactivity was unusual in Albany, particularly during a session that was marked by the newly Democrat-controlled body's willingness to take up issues that had long been considered off-limits.
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"It's not the volume of the nuclear waste that's the issue, but the radioactivity and heat it gives off as well as the fact that it remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years," he said.
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Indeed, it's now considered the "largest singular release of radioactivity from a civilian reprocessing plant," Georg Steinhauser, a co-author of the new study and a professor at the University of Hanover, said in a press release.
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Previous winners include Marie Curie, known for her pioneering work on radioactivity, and Mario J. Molina, the first person to discover the damaging effect of CFC gases (found in refrigerators and spray cans) on the ozone layer.
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Three plutonium reactors in the Fukushima Dai-ichi power station melted down, spilling their radioactivity across the countryside … The earthquake and tsunami caused more than $21896 billion of damage, making it the most costly natural disaster ever.
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It has been nearly nine years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant nuclear disaster, and while people still remain evacuated from the areas most contaminated by radioactivity, many wonder: What happened to the wildlife left behind?
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PARIS (Reuters) - France has stopped a large shipment of Belarus mushrooms contaminated with low-level radioactivity probably from Chernobyl and not linked to a radioactive cloud that appeared in southern Russia last month, officials said on Thursday.
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A coral-like pattern of white squiggles appears on a black shirt that senses radioactivity, which can cause cancer and damage DNA, and is becoming a more common risk in homes and urban spaces around the world.
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Hannah may or may not be fertile, since she was alive during the radioactivity, but in theory, the baby girls born more recently may actually be fertile themselves, thus eliminating the need for Handmaids in the first place.
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Now, thanks to a number of as-yet unresolved technical issues, the DOE says it hopes to have some low-radioactivity waste turned into glass by 2022, with full-scale operations on high-level waste beginning in 2036.
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"A scenario which leads to water loss by damage to the pools could lead to a release of radioactivity of the same or higher order than a core meltdown," said Yves Marignac, director of energy consultant WISE-Paris.
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"There is nothing to be gained in terms of knowledge from a trip to the zone except excitement and an extra portion of radioactivity," says historian Dr. Melanie Arndt of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies.
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Created by designer and engineer Nikolas Bentel, who previously wowed us with his digestible jewelry, the clothes in the Aerochromics line respond when they detect increased levels of pollutants in the air like radioactivity, carbon monoxide and particle pollution.
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Russian officials have admitted five "national hero" scientists were killed testing a nuclear-powered engine, and reports of heightened radiation levels in the area have sparked a local run on iodine, which is used to treat exposure to radioactivity.
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When Nobel wrote his will in 1895, the three scientific fields he named were indeed generating the most spectacular discoveries, and Nobel Prizes soon recognized world-changing advances: X-rays, radioactivity, artificial fertilizer, vitamins, nuclear fission and many more.
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In our networked world, where a video of Muslims being murdered in New Zealand can be shared on the other side of the world seconds later, the radioactivity of extreme ideology can no longer be fully avoided or forecast.
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The rare earths processing plant in the outback town of Kalgoorlie was given "Major Project Status" and is key to Lynas in its push to extract low-level radioactivity from materials to be shipped to Malaysia for final treatment.
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In a single year, the USSR Ministry of Health officially revised the human tolerance dose of radioactivity three times, constantly adjusting itself to accommodate the parameters of a crisis that it was eager to swallow as nothing too severe.
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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday in "Operation Radioactivity," a probe of alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant, threatening to delay debate over the government's ambitious fiscal reforms.
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Wealth Matters SHOULD a Phoenix-area jeweler be able to create his own private insurance company to cover his jewelry stores against possible terrorist attacks, specifically those "relating to radioactivity from a 'dirty' bomb or from nuclear fuel or nuclear waste"?
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It must be noted, though the hijinks were live and spirits bright, the animals' paint jobs received less-than-glowing reviews — whether their general lack of radioactivity is total paint failure, or reflective of temperature sensitivity, remains to be seen.
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While the connection between consuming a radioactive element and reaping a perceived energy boost is tenuous at best, it didn't stop people in the early 22018s from ignoring the known downsides of ingesting radioactivity and risking the long-term health consequences.
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Update 4:30 pm: DOE tank manager Tom Fletcher told the AP that visual inspections of the tank have found no evidence of a leak, but that air samples showed elevated levels of radioactivity between the tank's inner and outer hull.
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While the chemistry award has sometimes been overshadowed by the towering reputations of physics winners such as Albert Einstein, laureates include ground-breaking scientists such as radioactivity pioneers Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie, though she also won the physics prize.
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This hidden pollution, and the fact that the country still has no longterm plan for radioactive waste storage, inspired Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo.
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Although nuclear power has been used to fuel military submarines for decades, almost all major reactor incidents on these submarines, which resulted in release of radioactivity and in some cases the death of crew members, occurred on Soviet nuclear subs.
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A pair of pontoon barges suspected of being doused in radioactivity during a deadly nuclear missile accident in Russia washed up on a local beach three weeks ago, where they've reportedly been leaking radiation into the sea and sand ever since.
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Douglas M. Costle, who helped draw up the blueprints for the federal Environmental Protection Agency and served as its administrator when it tackled toxic waste sites and fluorocarbons and monitored radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, died on Jan.
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Local opponents of the storage, such as Tom Clements, director of SRS Watch, contend the facility was never built for holding plutonium and say there is a risk of leakage and accidents in which large amounts of radioactivity are released.
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According to the lawsuit, which was filed in San Francisco Superior Court, government agencies and private firms misled the island&aposs occupants in declaring the island to be a safe place to live, ultimately exposing them to potential radioactivity and pollution.
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Doctor Manhattan uses his powers to win the Vietnam War in the original timeline, but then, much like actual Vietnam veterans returning home, is viciously attacked by the public and accused of giving his former team partners cancer with his radioactivity.
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According to a report from a park service radiation safety officer who responded to Stephenson's request on June 14, 2018, testing results were positive for radioactivity above background levels near the buckets, but elsewhere the radiation levels were not elevated.
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Many musicians would kill to have a Discogs profile like Jeff Burke, and for 15 years the Denton, Texas musician has busted out frantic but highly melodic punk in bands such as Chop Sakis, The Reds, Bad Sports, Radioactivity, and The Marked Men.
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What I saw in his "Twin Peaks" as a pair of nuclear cooling towers thinly disguised as mountain peaks were not, in fact, that, nor was the "radioactivity symbol" parked over them like a menacing sun intended to be anything like that.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia cannot force rare earths miner Lynas Corp to leave despite opposition from some people who fear the risk of radioactivity from waste at the firm's processing plant, the nation's state news agency cited the prime minister as saying.
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A 2016 Energy Department audit of one of the United States' main uranium handling facilities, the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, warned that "intense precipitation or snow" could collapse parts its roof, possibly causing an accident involving radioactivity.
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Readers of BBC History magazine ranked Polish-born Curie at the top of a list of 100 women who changed the world, for becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and for her research into radioactivity – a word that she coined.
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He voted for it.) By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - In 2007, on his first visit to Berlin as French prime minister, Francois Fillon gave Angela Merkel an antique edition of "Radioactivity", a work by one of her heroes, fellow physicist Marie Curie.
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In time, the rates of miscarriages, birth defects, cancer and thyroid disease on Rongelap soared, but the United States refused to evacuate people again; doing so, the government said, would set a costly legal precedent linking radioactivity with a host of human illnesses.
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The Burevestnik reportedly suffered an explosion in August during tests at a Russian navy range on the White Sea, killing five nuclear engineers and two servicemen and resulting in a brief spike in radioactivity that fueled radiation fears in a nearby city.
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In time, the rates of miscarriages, birth defects, cancer and thyroid disease on Rongelap soared, but the United States refused to evacuate people again; doing so, the government said, would set a costly legal precedent linking radioactivity with a host of human illnesses.
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Katanga has been ramping up after a two-year halt for major reconstruction in 22019-227 but cobalt sales have been hit by the discovery last year of low levels of radioactivity in Katanga's material which will require the construction of an ion-exchange plant.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Malaysia cannot force rare earths miner Lynas Corp to leave despite opposition from some people who fear the risk of radioactivity from waste at the firm's processing plant, the nation's state news agency cited the prime minister as saying.
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Importantly, the researchers ruled out a crashed satellite as a possible source of the radiation, saying no satellite went missing during this time period, and that a satellite was unlikely to introduce radioactivity to such an extent over the affected low altitudes, among other factors.
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That said, not all samples taken near the vent produced the same high results, and measurements made just a few feet above the duct did not yield the same big levels of radioactivity, as Justin Gwynn, a researcher at DSA, explained in the press release.
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On the morning of April 264, 1986, no one could yet tell that a meltdown in reactor 4 of the nuclear plant in then-Soviet Ukraine was poisoning the air with so much deadly radioactivity that it would become the world's worst nuclear accident.
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But luck, as everyone knows, is both good and bad: It streams down on us constantly, indifferently, with its mixed blessings, in the same way that sunlight pours down on us constantly with its visible and invisible light, its vitamin D and its radioactivity.
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Valberg: So because I'm interested in the risk factors of radioactivity, and Julie Goodman is a molecular biologist … we both felt this was a useful piece of work to put out there and see what the rest of the scientific community might say about it.
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Its processing plant in the outback town of Kalgoorlie is key to Lynas' push to extract low-level radioactivity from materials to be shipped to Malaysia for final treatment and with the "Major Project Status" tag, the government will help coordinate and support approvals.
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The chance of a nuclear accident releasing significant radioactivity and harming the public is "very small," according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal agency whose mission is, in part, "to provide reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety.
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They stay relevant, though, by coming out of semi-retirement to play the occasional show, and their members keep active in the scene through various projects like Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, and Low Culture, and fragments of The Marked Men's sound can be heard across each of them.
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Category award: Landscape finalistSeries name: Project 596 (Chinese nuclear landscape)About the series: Ruiz used digital techniques to depict the "invisible" radioactivity of Lop Nor, a dried-up salt lake in northwest China's Xinjiang province that was used as a nuclear weapons testing site from 1964-96.
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Another reason may be cost: fuel fabrication costs using thorium are driven up due to the high level of radioactivity built up in U-233, the fissile fuel material that thorium can get transformed into when it's bombarded with neutrons, according to the World Nuclear Association.
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Now, a joint report from La Perla del Sur and the Center for Investigative Journalism has found "signs of radioactivity, in addition to traces of arsenic, chromium, selenium and molybdenum" in the groundwater surrounding a coal-fired power plant in Guayama, a southern city of 42,000 people.
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The missile exploded in its underground silo, throwing aloft a thermonuclear warhead with a destructive potential greater than all the bombs dropped in World War II. Its detonation would have leveled much of Arkansas and sent clouds of deadly radioactivity raining down on the East Coast.
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"My favorite speculation is that when life on Earth was evolving, radioactivity was much more present on Earth's surface than is today," Martin Hajduch, a senior scientist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, said of his research into Chernobyl flax.
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Bronk said coal plants, train deliveries and transmission systems are just as susceptible to hackers as gas pipelines, and added that, while nuclear facilities are tough targets, the stakes involved in a successful nuclear cyber attack are enormous - potentially involving an accident that leaks radioactivity and hits surrounding communities.
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"White County is not only particularly vulnerable to the impacts of fracking due to high levels of naturally occurring radioactivity and seismic activity, but also already faces periodic oil and brine spills," Food & Water Watch, a group advocating for healthy food and clean water, said in a statement.
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At the close of the fourth episode of the HBO mini-series Chernobyl, the highest ranked TV show ever scored by IMDb, we learn that Lyudmilla, the pregnant wife of the heroic firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, survives an otherwise fatal dose of radiation because her unborn fetus absorbed the radioactivity.
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David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and the director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said that in the event of a major nuclear accident at a floating barge, like a meltdown of the reactor core, winds could carry radioactivity to large population centers.
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The Chernobyl explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. Directly following the explosion, it was estimated that about 30 plant staff members and emergency workers died just four months after the accident; several of these deaths are documented in the series.
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According to a recent Greenpeace report titled "Nuclear Scars: The Lasting Legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima," radioactivity is present in pretty much every element of daily life in the area surrounding Pripyat, the Ukrainian city that was once home to the doomed Soviet nuclear power plant, especially where food is concerned.
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Related: Everything to Know About HBO's Dark New Hit Series, Chernobyl The explosion emitted 0003 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It is estimated that 2000 plant staff members and emergency workers who were there that night died within four months of the explosion.
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Since April 26, when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant erupted and spewed radioactivity far and wide, we have been wrestling anxiously with the unknown — as reporters, trying to distinguish fact from propaganda; personally, trying to cope with a threat that rides silently and invisibly with the wind.
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The report contains a sharp warning about a new Russian-made autonomous nuclear torpedo that — while not in violation of the terms of the treaty, known as New Start — appears designed to cross the Pacific undetected and release a deadly cloud of radioactivity that would leave large parts of the West Coast uninhabitable.
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His visit to China came as the Pentagon was considering a variety of far more aggressive military moves, including whether to strike at North Korea's missile launching sites if it sees preparations for an atmospheric test — which would spew radioactivity into the skies — or use missile defenses to try to shoot down missiles.
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The alert said it applied to people within 10 kilometers of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, and while it said "NO abnormal release of radioactivity from the station," people who got the notificiation were terrified – until at least some got a second notification more than an hour later that it had been a mistake.
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Forty years later, the Church Rock spill remains the largest single largest accidental release of radioactivity in U.S. history, worse in terms of total radiation than that of the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island and second in world history only to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, both of which have loomed much larger in the cultural imagination.
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This shinier new home, though considered by many to be lacking the current spot's authenticity and spirit, was also designed with the intent to convey a higher level of sanitation, as Tsukiji's sales took a serious hit following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, which raised concerns about the threat of radioactivity in the fish supply.
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In villages as much as 140 miles from the Chernobyl nuclear plant, radioactivity readings in milk are up to five times the Ukranian government's official limit for adults, and more than 12 times the limit for children, according to scientists from the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter, in Britain, and the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology.
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Particularly bewildering is why this happened in the early decades of the 21st century when the powerful impacts of climate change were becoming abundantly clear, and the scientific basis for the longer terms risks of nuclear power was demonstrably diminishing for one of the key issues — that of cancer due to radioactivity — and particularly nuclear waste.
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NFDA supports further study of this issue and welcomes recommendations on how the health and safety of crematory staff and the community can be protected to the greatest degree possible, including, as the research letter suggests, by evaluating radioactivity in deceased patients prior to cremation and by ensuring that crematory operators receive notification sufficient to employ the proper safety precautions, if needed.
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In the filmmakers' estimation, these include the mating rituals of various South Pacific islanders; birds and turtles on the Marshall Islands whose life cycles have been scrambled by radioactivity; sharks that have grown accustomed to eating human flesh, thanks to an underwater cemetery; and a New York City restaurant whose patrons, some coifed like Jacqueline Kennedy, dine on beetles, muskrats and worms.
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In the filmmakers' estimation, these include the mating rituals of various South Pacific islanders; birds and turtles on the Marshall Islands whose life cycles have been scrambled by radioactivity; sharks that have grown accustomed to eating human flesh thanks to an underwater cemetery; and a New York City restaurant whose patrons, some coifed like Jacqueline Kennedy, dine on beetles, muskrats and worms.
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