Sentence examples for high levels of radioactivity from inspiring English sources

The E.P.A.'s moves follow reports in The New York Times about gas-industry wastewater with high levels of radioactivity being sent to sewage treatment plants that were not designed to remove radioactive materials.

In northern Scandinavia, in the nineteen-sixties, Laplanders began to show high levels of radioactivity in their tissues.

Heat from such high levels of radioactivity could have melted rocks in the early solar system, making them more likely to stick together and form planets, he said.

They were holding radiation detectors that they passed around the truck and that found high levels of radioactivity in the cargo, the second State Department official said.

Owing to the high levels of radioactivity, it had been impossible to bolt or weld the Object Shelter together, so within a decade it was on the verge of collapse.

The high levels of radioactivity have made it harder to get inside the buildings, slowing the effort to cool the reactors and spent-fuel pools.

However, 30 min after injection, tissue with the highest level of radioactivity was the bone (7.57 ± 2.21% ID/g); the high level of radioactivity lasted to the end of experiment (120 min, 5.62 ± 0.77% ID/g).

This means that the material produced has a high level of radioactivity per gram of molybdenum (high specific activity).

Summed PET images of monkey brain acquired after radioligand injection displayed a high level of radioactivity, especially in the choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle.

This additional study confirmed a high level of radioactivity accumulation (reaching about 15% ID g−1 from 30 min to 12 h postadministration) within the intestinal tissue.

Compounds radiolabelled with carbon-11 or fluorine-18 (via fluoride only) are produced at high specific radioactivity, i.e. a high level of radioactivity is associated with a very small amount of the stable compound or 'carrier'carrier