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.
This was turned into a cancer test by attaching small amounts of radioactive material to the antibody.
They run on Thorium, a mildly radioactive material more common than tin and found all over the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) concluded the chance of a regular beach-user coming into contact with radioactive material ranged from one in 1, 000 to one in 10, 000.
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The annual report has revealed that DSRL was awaiting the outcome of an investigation into why not all procedures were followed in the movement of radioactive material.
According to a report on Swedish television, Russian boats sailed out at night to dump barrels of radioactive material, from a military base in Latvia, into Swedish waters.
None of the Daiichi accidents were considered major safety hazards, and none caused any injuries or led to the release of any radioactive material outside the plant, until this month's accident.
In addition to driving the turbines to create electricity, the steam generators are "one of the barriers between the radioactive material in the reactor core and ultimately the external environment, " Jaczko noted.
Made of hardened steel that is between four and eight inches thick, the integrity of the containment vessel is critical in preventing enormous quantities of radioactive material from escaping into the environment.
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For example, he said, when Tepco cleans the inside of the reactor, it uses specialized equipment and robots, but humans must manipulate them remotely and inevitably they get closer to radioactive material.
They were forced to conclude that a half-dozen of them had dropped in volume and were leaking anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year.
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