An environmental survey was carried out in these mine areas of Sabugal municipality to assess radioactive contamination through measuring radioactivity levels in surface waters, river sediments, groundwater, and horticulture products.
The train hauling 11 containers of radioactive waste rolled through Germany on Saturday on its 621-mile journey from Valognes, in Normandy, France.
On Feb. 15, an inch-wide tube carrying superheated radioactive water through the nuclear generator started leaking at a gallon a second through a gash caused by corrosion.
But they have little experience studying whether rain water could wash radioactive materials through the soil into underground water supplies.
Workers in isotope geology follow the migration of isotopes produced by radioactive decay through large- and small-scale geologic processes.
The New Yorker, November 13 , 1978P. 142 OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about the hazards of trucking radioactive materials through N.Y.C. which has been banned by the Board of Health since 1976.
The Mössbauer effect is usually observed by measuring the transmission of gamma rays from a radioactive source through an absorber containing the same isotope in the ground state.
Claims of a supposed plot to use a low-tech device that spreads mildly radioactive material through conventional means, a so-called "dirty bomb", in the US in 2002, have been discredited.
Bowing to renewed concerns about terrorist attacks, Panama authorities said today that they were beefing up security to protect a British ship carrying radioactive cargo through the Panama Canal this weekend.
They are observing the effects of heat on the surrounding rock, the corrosion of the steel to be used for the canisters, the movement of water and radioactive isotopes through the rock, and the production of gases.
