Sentence examples for radioactive processes from inspiring English sources

Unlike existing nuclear reactors, which produce nasty long-lived radioactive waste, the radioactive processes involved with fusion are relatively short-lived and the waste products benign.

An impressive natural radioluminescence is the aurora borealis: by the radioactive processes of the sun, enormous masses of electrons and ions are emitted into space in the solar wind.

Neutrons and gamma-rays, due to radioactive processes, are produced in the detector components and are one of the main factors that can limit detector sensitivity.

"Man cannot control nature and eventually, someday, somewhere, some community will experience the harmful effects of heavy industry and their ignorant radioactive processes".

One type of radioactivity, called beta decay, in which a nucleus emits an electron and thereby increases its net positive charge by one unit, has been known since the late 1890s; but it was only with the discovery of the neutron in 1932 that physicists could begin to understand correctly what happens in this radioactive process.

Ground-based measurements of β-decay the same radioactive process that gave physicists their first hints that neutrinos exist—could settle whether keV-scale sterile neutrinos are also part of nature's lineup, Abazajian suggests.

This flavor transformation mechanism causes the radioactive process of beta decay, in which a neutron "splits" into a proton, an electron and an electron antineutrino (see picture).

Non-radioactive processes, such as decays of heavy dark matter particles (neutralinos) predicted by most extensions of the standard model of particle physics, could also produce positrons as byproducts.

Within this series of relatively short-lived decay products, gaseous Rn (t1/2 = 55.6 sec) presents a potential challenge to modeling expected increases in total radioactivity resulting from radioactive ingrowth processes.

In the various radioactive decay processes, several "rays" are emitted, the term ray being a holdover from the time when all these emissions were thought to be rays.

For example, certain radioactive decay processes violate parity.