In fact, standards for NORM (naturally occurring radioactive material) have been observed for years.
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Even during the process we should never release any radioactive material into the surrounding environment.
Increased concentrations of radioactive material were found in milk and vegetables in the area.
Radioactive material from a military base in Latvia is thought to have been thrown into Swedish waters.
This was turned into a cancer test by attaching small amounts of radioactive material to the antibody.
There have been persistent reports that plots involving radioactive material in one form or another are afoot.
He died at a London hospital November 23, 2006, after being poisoned by the radioactive material polonium-210.
They run on Thorium, a mildly radioactive material more common than tin and found all over the world.
At the Tuwaitha nuclear complex, Iraq's largest, the contents of some barrels of radioactive material are unaccounted for.
Critics of the deal fear assistance to India's civil programme could free-up additional radioactive material for bomb-making purposes.
Among the most worrying reports of looting has been the loss of radioactive material at Iraq's main nuclear site.
Wednesday a fire was reported in the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant that was leaking radioactive material as early as Monday.
The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island was much smaller in scale, and emitted far less radioactive material into the atmosphere.
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And the longer a major release of radioactive material is avoided, the chances increase that the reactors cool on their own.
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Luddites will thus be able to continue to frighten shoppers with fears that the meat has been treated with some sort of radioactive material.
The design of the reactors is likely to contain radioactive material somewhat.
Firefighters have sealed off a section of Chatelherault Country Park in Hamilton after a container marked as holding radioactive material was found.
This could prevent a worse disaster, but is still highly dangerous, even if winds blow most of the radioactive material out to sea.
Berezovsky also blamed the Kremlin for the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned by radioactive material in London.
But because of power outages cooling systems failed, leading to fears of a meltdown and possible release of large amounts of radioactive material.
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The move comes 11 months after a tsunami in Japan wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, leaking radioactive material into the air and sea.
Solid-fuel reactors are atomic pressure cookers, with the constant danger of high-pressure ruptures, meltdowns, and the forceful ejection of radioactive material into the environment.
And, almost all of the radioactive material released was iodine-131, associated with thyroid cancer, which is one of the slowest growing and least deadly cancers.
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Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.
On the strength of Erector's success, Gilbert branched out into microscopes, chemistry sets and a nuclear science kit containing a small sample of radioactive material.
British officials have said traces of radioactive material were found at Litvinenko's home and places where he ate and met others just before becoming sick.
It is also a problem of getting weapons grade radioactive material.
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On the strength of Erector's success, Gilbert branched out into microscopes, chemistry sets and a nuclear science kit, which contained a small sample of radioactive material.
Dirty Nukes--suitcase-size bombs made of explosives studded with scavenged chunks of radioactive material--could become the next tool of terrorism, far more devastating than hijackings and anthrax.
To put the reports coming out of Japan in perspective, the NRC limits occupational radiation exposure for adults working with radioactive material to 50, 000 microsieverts a year.
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