Sentence examples for spread radiation from inspiring English sources
If they find the cancer has spread, radiation therapy may also be needed.
Such a "dirty bomb" is not a true nuclear device but would use conventional explosives packed with nuclear material to spread radiation across a wide area.
Treasury Prices Rise (By Bloomberg News) -- Bonds gained yesterday as investors sought the safest securities after the government said it had disrupted a terrorist plan to detonate a bomb that would spread radiation.
What makes it especially threatening is that, from the moment it is loaded with nuclear fuel, it becomes almost inconceivable that it would be attacked militarily because that could spread radiation on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
After the accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which was caused by operator mistakes and which spread radiation beyond Ukraine across swathes of Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called for more global co-operation on safety.
Among some of the more nightmarish episodes are of a man's body disintegrating before his wife's eyes, the culling of household pets for fear that they would spread radiation, and the actual burying of radioactive villages (and the topsoil to boot!).
In Washington, an American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Mr. bin Laden was no doubt interested in acquiring a "dirty bomb" -- a conventional bomb capable of spreading radiation.
To many experts, the pools posed an even greater potential threat than the reactors, because the pools were loaded with years' worth of uranium and not encased on all sides in steel or concrete; they relied only on water to prevent them from overheating and spreading radiation.
He said he would expect that certain seabirds are also quickly spreading radiation across the ocean and I said, "Holy shit".
In 1959, radiation clouds crossed the cut-off, spreading radiation between Knolls and Wendover from nuclear tests being conducted at the nearby Dugway Proving Ground.
Although this quarter-sized amount of plutonium is nowhere near enough to make a nuclear weapon, it is enough to make a dirty bomb that spreads radiation, according to the Associated Press.
