Sentence examples for explosive dispersal from inspiring English sources

The chairman of the committee that wrote the report, Dr. John W. Poston Sr., a professor of nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University, said an explosive dispersal of radioactive material would dilute it, making it almost impossible for a person to get a large enough radiation dose to cause acute illness.

Operation Rats investigated explosive dispersal of uranium.

Pilobolus, also called hat-thrower fungus, a cosmopolitan genus of at least five species of fungi in the family Pilobolaceae (order Mucorales) that are known for their explosive spore dispersal.

Tephra dispersal from explosive eruptions is a function of multiple factors, including magma discharge, degree of magma fragmentation, vent geometry, plume height, particle size distribution, and wind velocity.

the lessons learned about the ash dispersal from modest explosive eruptions in Iceland.

Low order detonations of high explosive payloads result in the patchy dispersal of particles of high explosive formulations over large areas of firing range soils.

Although the tephra fallout was most prominent in the sectors to the south and east, the prolonged explosive activity resulted in full 360° dispersal around the volcano forming a continuous tephra blanket extending from 30 up to 80 km distance from the source vents (Fig. 4).

Mr. Ross said the dispersal of ammunition and explosives by American forces as part of an effort to attract insurgents would present obvious human rights problems.

Also known as "dirty bombs," radiological dispersal devices have conventional explosives wrapped around radioactive material.

Variable wind directions coupled with a duration of 13 days resulted in considerably wider dispersal than in the first explosive phase, with ash being detected over an area of >5·106 km2 (Fig. 4).

Such dispersal has hitherto not been anticipated for smaller explosive events.