Sentence examples for contaminated spot from inspiring English sources

The most heavily contaminated spot was in the town of Okuma about two miles southwest of the plant, where someone living for a year would be exposed to 508.1 millisieverts of radiation — far above the level of 20 millesieverts per year that the government considers safe.

The commission's calculation also assumes the individual is a subsistence farmer who drills a well in the most contaminated spot and uses its water for drinking and irrigation.

The most contaminated spot in the Radiation Defense survey, near a church, was well above the level of the 1.5 million becquerels per square meter that required mandatory resettlement at Chernobyl.

John G. Haggard, the manager of G.E.'s Hudson River program, was working just downriver from the mill in 1991, testing the sediment and the fish in a place called the Thompson Island Pool -- the river's single most contaminated spot -- when the first shock wave occurred.

Aim the nozzle of the hair dryer at the contaminated spot on your leather.

Remediation by reductive dechlorination using nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) is possible, but its delivery into contaminated hot spots is difficult using solely hydraulic gradients.

A conservative threshold of TI = 40 (red dashed line in Fig. 4c) is thus used to classify a pixel as hot spot contaminated.

The spectral feature of the strip between the terrace and the mare-highland boundary is basically as reddish as that of the neighboring mare and is contaminated by bluish spots probably due to the highland materials derived from the top of Chajorra (Fig. 10c).

They say that new dredging technologies can effectively attack buried spots of PCB's and, if used carefully, can keep contaminated silt from spreading and creating new problems.

GAMMA1 (spot 6) showed IgE binding; however, with the higher resolution available for this analysis, it was clear that the spot was contaminated with BETA4 protein and this may explain why it appeared to bind IgE.

Spots were excluded from the quantification, if they were contaminated by overflowing neighbouring spots or if artefacts are present on the membrane.