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So suddenly, it will become kind of radioactive from Chernobyl and the 2,000 or so nuclear bombs that have been set off since 1945.
You might not believe it, but even our own bodies are radioactive enough to disturb this experiment.
The middle line is millions of tons of plastic debris accumulating in our ocean, and the third line is radioactive material leaking from Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Pacific Ocean.
SPECT imaging is a brain-scanning technology that uses a radioactive tracer to track blood flow in the brain.
But these clinics have treated tens of thousands of patients to date, many of them children, and SPECT imaging involves a radioactive injection, so exposing people to radiation, potentially harmful.
It has a core, and it has a heat exchanger from the hot salt, the radioactive salt, to a cold salt which isn't radioactive.
It's still thermally hot but it's not radioactive.
And people say, "Oh, well, you've launched this thing, and it's radioactive, into space, and what about accidents?"
In the next decade, the zone's human residents will be gone, and it will revert to a wild, radioactive place, full only of animals and occasionally daring, flummoxed scientists.
It only produces short term radioactive waste, and it cannot melt down.
It's geeks just like me discovering they have access to superpower, one that requires the skill and tenacity of their intellect, but thankfully no radioactive spiders.
And with this we could see that the radioactive dust was washing from the top of the mountain into the river system, and leaking into the ocean.
Rapid nuclear fission is not any better since it often results in many radioactive particles.
And do you really want the heat of the Sun or a radioactive nuclear plant inside of your body?
However, some combinations of protons and neutrons, known as isotopes, remain unstable, or radioactive.
We also refine naturally occurring radioactive ores to fuel nuclear power plants.
Even bananas contain trace amounts of a radioactive potassium isotope.
It wasn't until the mid-20th century we realized that radium's harmful effects as a radioactive element outweighed its visual benefits.
Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende, the Curies realized that uranium alone couldn't be creating all the radiation.
So, were there other radioactive elements that might be responsible?
Jesse Perez: It's the middle of the night and the sky is glowing like mad, radioactive red.
And then I got some really dangerous stuff: syringes full of radioactive carbon-14 carbon dioxide gas and some high pressure bottles of the stable isotope carbon-13 carbon dioxide gas.
I injected carbon-14, the radioactive gas, into the bag of birch.
The birch had taken up the radioactive gas.
If you get the right origin, like, for example, Spiderman being bitten by a radioactive spider, at least, then the viewer has something to hold on to and to say, "Well, it might have happened, now I'll enjoy it."
The unassuming Peter Parker, the wallflower who's picked on and misunderstood, gets bitten by a radioactive spider that gives him extraordinary powers and extraordinary responsibilities.
As a result of this explosion, a cloud of radioactive particles disseminated all over the earth, marking the beginning of the Anthropocene era.
As the fireball cools, unstable atoms created by the nuclear fission mix with the debris to produce the most dangerous long-term effect of a nuclear detonation: radioactive particles called fallout.
This syringe contains a radioactive form of glucose known as FDG.
This impact turns oxygen-18 into fluorine-18, a radioactive isotope that can be detected on a PET scan.
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