Sentence examples for radiological from inspiring English sources

No bombs were tested during the filming, but the article quoted Robert Pendleton, director of radiological health at the University of Utah, saying radioactivity from previous blasts probably lodged in Snow Canyon.

The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), an agency with near Olympian powers which ran the nuclear programme, selected a government-owned bombing and gunnery range in Nevada partly because winds would blow "radiological hazards" away from Las Vegas and Los Angeles towards "virtually uninhabitable" land downwind to the west, home to ranches and Mormon communities.

The Voyagers had redundant sets of three separate computers and could store and execute programs, as well as radiological power sources.

A report from the National Audit Office has showed big gaps in the National Health Service's readiness in London alone, one-third of casualty departments are ill-prepared for handling a radiological ("dirty") bomb, as are many ambulances.Some sensible steps are planned but yet to happen.

The problem is most acute in the former Soviet Union: in Ukraine alone, roughly 2,500 organisations use radiological materials.In this section Glowing in the dark Who counts?

A sizeable network of informers helps Georgia's interior ministry to keep a close eye on the four or five cells in the country currently trying to obtain or sell radiological material, says Mr Pavlenishvili.

A reasonably cheap, non-radiological way of doing that would be more than welcome in the poorer parts of the world.

But a "dirty bomb" (technically a radiological-dispersal device) is far easier to build than a nuclear weapon and would spread not just radiation but panic, adds Mr Reed, who later served as secretary of the air force.

The International Commission on Radiological Protection says an appropriate "normal" level is 1mSv/year, over the long term.Second, some asked the national government to exempt all evacuees from the cost of their medical checks, not just the under-18-year-olds, as was apparently offered.

He announced his findings earlier this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, in Chicago.In this section About face A hard, simple problem Radio-too-active If the cap fits ReprintsDr Zuckier examined diagnostic tracers of the sort used in brain, bone and cardiac scans, and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, such as the iodine used to treat thyroid disorders.

Nuclear/radiological Does not possess facilities to produce fissile material in sufficient amounts for nuclear weapons.