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• n  the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay

• Should the level of radioactivity rise markedly, babies could be kept on processed food longer to avoid radiation; milk and other vulnerable foods could be kept in freezers for a .
• What to look for is uranium's radioactivity.
• Large populated areas surrounding the reactor site in the Ukraine and in nearby Belorussia remain contaminated with high levels of radioactivity.

• radiation

News & Articles

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• Feds: Nuclear waste may be leaking into soil from Hanford site
  An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site might be leaking into the soil.The U.S. Energy Department said workers at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection Thursday.Spokeswoman Lori Gamache said the department has notified Washington ...
  June 22, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Radioactive waste may be leaking into soil at Hanford
  An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site might be leaking into the soil.  The U.S. Energy Department said workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation detected higher radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection Thursday.  Spokeswoman Lori Gamache says the department has notified Washington officials and is ...
  June 21, 2013 - KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma
• Hanford tank might be leaking more radioactive waste into soil
  Workers at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site detected high radioactivity levels under a tank during an inspection Thursday. The matter is being investigated further.
  June 21, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Albert Einstein in AHN
  That's still a long time, and then after that the idea was that the very dense rock, very far away from the water table will contain it, so that by the time it finally leaks down to the water table and gets out the radioactivity will have mostly... Steven Chu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFEhe38NhJeXvB-lq_4BMsrmhsRzA San Francisco Chronicle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/n/a/2008/12/15/politics/p152412S19.DTL%26type%3Dpolitics&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHtiqzivC3KSoIBRrNoDQ42f1w_7w Dec 15, 2008 79940 107777 radioactivity Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova, Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology at Einstein said, Radioimmunotherapy not only worked against these cancers, but in addition the radioactivity was confined entirely to the tumor...
• Anil Kakodkar in Times of India
  After any kind of explosion, police teams going to the spot should be armed with radiation monitors. If radioactivity is detected then the place has to be cordoned off and the authorities of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) should be called,...