Sentence examples for high levels of radioactive from inspiring English sources

It also had extremely high levels of radioactive thorium.

The bulletin noted "high levels of radioactive iodine" attributable to the reported meltdown at the Soviet nuclear plant.

But if a chain reaction gets out of control, accidents like those at Chernobyl could occur, and high levels of radioactive material could be released into the atmosphere.

Some towns farther away are also set to be evacuated because particularly high levels of radioactive materials were found there.

On Wednesday, the plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, said it had detected high levels of radioactive strontium in groundwater at the site.

"We already know from test fracking in the Kimberly that high levels of radioactive material have been brought up with the flow-back fluid," Hammond said.

"What Duke University found was that even though there was reclamation done on most of these sites, there is still a high level of radioactive material that has been left behind.... Radium causes many types of cancer, mostly bone cancer.

In another development, seawater near the plant showed significantly higher levels of radioactive iodine than in recent days, Japan's nuclear safety agency reported Wednesday.

Tokyo's governor recommended that babies be kept away from the city's tap water as it contained higher levels of radioactive iodine.

At the time, this nuclear bomb test was named Upshot-Knothole Harry, though history would come to remember it as "Dirty Harry," in light of it being the nuclear test with the highest levels of radioactive fallout in US history.

The same day this report was published, another source reported U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and a group of colleagues called for further public water supply testing when it was discovered that the wastewater created as a byproduct of drilling Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania was found to have "higher levels of radioactive materials than was previously disclosed".