Sentence examples for becomes radioactive from inspiring English sources

Treated for thyroid cancer, Paul Bannerman, a white ecologist in South Africa, becomes radioactive.

Uranium can fuel both nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, and it all becomes radioactive waste.

But it becomes radioactive, and potentially very radioactive, if the fuel rods in the reactor vessel above have begun to melt.

Bombarded by neutrons, natural thulium becomes radioactive thulium-170 (128.6-day half-life), which ejects soft gamma radiation with wavelength commensurate with laboratory hard X-ray sources.

While the method has proved effective, it has led to a buildup of enormous quantities of contaminated water – a mixture of the coolant and groundwater that becomes radioactive when it flows from hills behind the plant into the reactor buildings.

Concrete that is used in neutron generating facilities, such as fission reactors, becomes radioactive owing to neutron irradiation.

It would also not itself become radioactive by absorbing neutrons.

(They become radioactive, too, but that's another story).

The food does not become radioactive; by eating it, you will not become the Incredible Hulk.

These colour changes are not always permanent, and the stone may become radioactive.

Joe McCulloch, a Columbia attorney, recalled, "After that, Maurice became radioactive, as did his barbecue".