adjective
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a radioactive substance (= containing a form of energy that can harm people )
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People who work with radioactive substances are subject to strict regulations.
radioactive dating
radioactive fallout
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protection against radioactive fallout
radioactive material
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harmful radioactive material
radioactive waste
radioactive/nuclear waste
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plans for the safe transportation of radioactive waste
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■ ADVERB
highly
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Finding ways of soothing political opposition to the dumping of highly radioactive waste could prove more difficult than solving the scientific problems.
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The third isotope of hydrogen, hydrogen-3 or tritium, is highly radioactive and has a very short half-life.
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A Green Party spokesman said that spent fuel rods are highly radioactive and potentially lethal.
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Fuel rods typically last from two to six years and are highly radioactive .
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This is because higher level waste is initially rich in short-lived isotopes which are highly radioactive .
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The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste.
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The process leaves behind a highly radioactive liquor as a waste product.
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In its native state it is a mixture of highly radioactive uranium-235 and less active U-238.
■ NOUN
contamination
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The odds against radioactive contamination , Nasa told the court, are 2,500 to 1.
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Traces of radioactive contamination were found on the flask when it was being washed after arrival.
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Uncertainty and scientific dispute is compounded by the fact that radioactive contamination is different from many other types of pollution.
decay
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Like all types of radioactive decay the process takes place at a constant rate, independent of all environmental conditions.
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The ratios change over time as potassium undergoes radioactive decay and emits argon gas.
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One becquerel is equal to one radioactive decay per second.
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Antimatter is also produced by radioactive decay .
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This is a dating method based on the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium.
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Helium is also made by radioactive decay of uranium and thorium, both of which decay by emission of alpha particles.
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This instability leads to radioactive decay of C at a regular rate.
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This helium produced by radioactive decay , called radiogenic helium, consists of pure 4He.
dust
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In the uranium mines, workers breathe in radioactive dust as they dig out the metal ore which contains the valuable element.
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As the fire shed its microscopic radioactive dust over their houses and gardens, they continued to walk about, blissfully unaware.
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How much radioactive dust is in my body?
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The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war.
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Officials have still to decide how the radioactive dust and nuclear fuel inside should be cleaned up.
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The doctors there know all about uranium and radioactive dust .
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A Department of Environment spokesman said that 1 gram of radioactive dust had been released.
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It feels like time spent on the moon, kicking up clouds of radioactive dust .
fallout
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The study linked the increase directly to the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl.
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I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout , bomb shelter.
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These costs linger like radioactive fallout , contaminating core beliefs and inspiring additional replicative actions that demand further minimization.
fuel
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The reactor core erupted in a gigantic explosion, spewing enormous amounts of heat and disintegrated radioactive fuel into the atmosphere.
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Millstone has removed all the radioactive fuel in the reactor to permit repairs.
iodine
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Outside, radioactive iodine was regularly released into the atmosphere over the following month.
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This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people's thyroid glands.
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The radioactive iodine released does not satisfy the second and fourth conditions.
isotope
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The new ingredient in the assessment of how many deaths the Windscale cloud caused is the radioactive isotope , polonium 210.
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Electricity produced by radioactive isotopes , strontium 90, polonium 210, by thermoelectric energy conversion.
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The simplest radioactive methods are based on decay of a radioactive isotope into a stable one.
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Every radioactive isotope provides an independent clock for measuring geological time.
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She could hear the adjacent streetlight sizzling like a radioactive isotope .
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Asteroids contain a variety of rare radioactive isotopes of potassium, uranium, thorium, rubidium, and so on.
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Increasing the helium-3 supply would mean scaling up the production of the dangerous radioactive isotope tritium.
leak
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The transporters are designed to withstand accidents and until recently the Govenrment ruled out any possibility of a radioactive leak .
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The events included radioactive leaks , unplanned shutdowns and component failures, as well as vandalism, drug abuse and unauthorized use of firearms.
material
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Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material .
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A conventional bomb could scatter radioactive material over a large area.
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Radiation is released during the handling and treatment of radioactive materials and as they are transported to and from nuclear sites.
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Two other canisters bearing labels for radioactive material were also found, but preliminary tests failed to detect any radioactivity.
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This would have resulted in more radioactive material being released.
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There is a danger of leakages and the deliberate dumping of radioactive material , with potentially catastrophic results for the environment.
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So far environmental lobbies have been extremely reluctant to allow radioactive materials to be flown in a chemical rocket.
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As I said earlier, the safety of the carriage of radioactive material is paramount.
substance
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Many more will have suffered from cancers brought on by one of the radioactive substances released.
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The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time interval taken for the radiant species present to lose half its radioactivity.
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Low-level waste is primarily the product of industrial and medical use of radioactive substances .
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This has been particularly useful in the nuclear industry where highly corrosive toxic and radioactive substances cause severe maintenance problems.
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The activity of a radioactive substance is the number of nuclei decaying per second.
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They've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people.
waste
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The thought of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste being buried under their favourite stretch of countryside filled local residents with horror.
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The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-level radioactive waste .
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Agreement was only reached following a fierce debate over the question of radioactive waste .
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The agency ruled Thursday that the repository in salt beds near Carlsbadabout 300 miles southeast of Albuquerquecould safely contain radioactive waste .
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Sites are being selected for final disposal of radioactive waste .
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These secretive facilities house the deadly legacies of the Cold War: nuclear weapons, radioactive waste and toxic chemicals.
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This meets the growing need to improve geoscience knowledge relevant to strategies for subsurface disposal of hazardous and radioactive wastes .
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The kind of radioactive waste they are handling out there is the most dangerous kind.
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radioactive decay
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a highly radioactive material
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But it has its very own radioactive quality, a kind of nuclear winter of the soul.
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But potassium itself is one of the most important radioactive heat sources in the planets.
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One becquerel is equal to one radioactive decay per second.
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Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material.
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The agency ruled Thursday that the repository in salt beds near Carlsbadabout 300 miles southeast of Albuquerquecould safely contain radioactive waste.
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These elements are major sources of radioactive heating.
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This was the thorny question of what would happen eventually to the reactor's residue of radioactive waste.