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  • a  exhibiting or caused by radioactivity
    radioactive isotope
    radioactive decay
    radioactive fallout

  • How had the radioactive steam escaped from the reactor building? Again, said the company spokesmen, this was intentional.
  • A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive salted with radioactive isotopes in order to spew out that nuclear material and contaminate a wide area.
  • It is not merely the radioactive mess left by the 1986 meltdown.
News & Articles

  • Marine Levels Of Radioactive Strontium Spiked Following 2011 Fukushima Accident
    redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online New research suggests that the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant two years ago increased the amount of radioactive strontium on the east coast of Japan by as much as one-hundred times their normal levels. Experts from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and the Department of Physics of the Universitat ...
    June 12, 2013 - redOrbit
  • Fukushima accident raised levels of radioactive strontium off the east coast of Japan by up to 100 times
    Researchers in Spain have studied the spread of radioactive strontium in the coastal waters of eastern Japan during the three months following the Fukushima nuclear accident, which happened in March 2011. The samples analysed show the impact of the direct release of radioactive materials into the Pacific Ocean, and indicate that the amount of strontium-90 discharged into the sea during those ...
    June 11, 2013 - Science Daily
  • DEQ: Gauge Containing Radioactive Material Recovered
    A gauge containing radioactive material was recovered over the weekend. It had been stolen from the back of a pickup truck near Ponca City on Thursday.
    June 11, 2013 - News On 6 Tulsa
Quotes

  • Norm Coleman in USA Today
    There was a detailed review, based on the two experimental results: first, the seismic measurement close to the site and, second, radioactive measurement of the material after post-shot drill on the test site. It has been established by the project... APJ Abdul Kalam http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Kalam&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHgJbAtlxEpQ-ou-4pw89wqp_Zf7g Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Kalam-certifies-Pokharan-II-Santhanam-stands-his-ground/articleshow/4942911.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHS2RdovXPmySSgLtRizdb0STVlbg Aug 27, 2009 79937 107767 radioactive The reality is that it is easier to buy low-grade radioactive material for a dirty bomb than it is to buy cold medicine that has been restricted because of the meth epidemic," Coleman said. "The operation demonstrated that the Nuclear...
  • John Negroponte in United Press International
    Analysis of air samples collected on Oct. 11, 2006 detected radioactive debris which confirms that North Korea conducted an underground nuclear explosion in the vicinity of P'unggye on Oct. 9, 2006. The explosion yield was less than a kiloton,...

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