Her work will focus on studying the fate of toxic and radioactive materials in the environment.
Radioactive materials used in nuclear power generation must be isolated from human or environmental contact for thousands of years.
The market has its attractiveness, but, like radioactive materials, it carries huge risks.
These detectors are extremely sensitive and can detect minute amounts of radioactive materials.
The report then goes on to say that most communities would be apprehensive to have radioactive materials at their doorstep.
Solid nuclear fuel like that used at Fukushima-Daiichi can melt and release radioactive materials if not cooled consistently during shutdown.
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What is left is a damaged core with heavy radioactive materials that cannot go airborne unless there is some additional motive force.
Just to be clear, what we sent out were these pods, and these pods measure deposition of radioactive materials on the ground.
In that accident, the lack of a containment vessel surrounding the reactor meant radioactive materials from the accident were spread far and wide.
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They have a primary and a secondary containment structure, both made from thick reinforced concrete, to protect against the release of radioactive materials.
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Since 1993 nearly 400 cases of illegal trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials have been tracked by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
The two companies "are confident that we can safely drill in the Kara Sea and avoid hazards from radioactive materials on the seabed", Exxon Mobil said.
At about the same time, the nuclear industry started using force feedback devices to help workers manipulate hazardous, radioactive materials with slave arms through thick, leaded glass.
While many people do not know it, numerous activities, including basic construction such as digging a basement, uncover tailings that contain radioactive materials that naturally occur in the ground.
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Among the measures apparently being considered are steps to prevent radioactive materials falling into the hands of terrorists, and the interception of ships and aircraft suspected of carrying WMD.
What didn't fail, at last report, was the series of physical barriers in the form of steel and concrete that keep radioactive materials from being freely released into the environment.
Given its inherent risks, nuclear power has always been an exercise of mind over matter, in which human intellect seeks to harness the power of nuclear fission of radioactive materials.
The IAEA, meanwhile, can help governments with advice: protecting the Beijing Olympics, for example, against radiological attack, disposing of radioactive materials found in factories and hospitals, and fixing security breaches.
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The human and economic damage from the earthquake and tsunami are terrible, and the apparent release of some radioactive materials into the atmosphere compounds the significant sense of unease in global markets.
These materials include low-grade waste from power stations and small devices containing radioactive materials such as cesium-137, used in some cancer treatments, cobalt-60, used in food irradiation, or americum, incorporated in sensors for oil exploration.
The answer is yes -- each one of them is designed to withstand an earthquake, without releasing any radioactive materials at all, up to the maximum projected seismic event at that plant, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington.
This isn't exactly a return to hardcore chemistry sets of the past (you'll find no radioactive materials or poisons in here), but it's certainly a step in the right direction for an America whose love affair with science is on the rocks.
Tuesday's explosion at the No. 2 reactor in the Fukushima complex, 150 miles north of Tokyo, for the first time raised the possibility that the key containment structure of the unit, which protects the reactor vessel and keeps dangerous radioactive materials from leaking out, had been damaged.
Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
Lynas says it intends to process the radioactive waste into other materials, such as road surfacing, diluting it.
"There are no radioactive, biological, chemical and other dangerous materials on board the station, " the foreign ministry said.
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