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How To Use radioactive In A Sentence

• The pills—containing inexpensive potassium iodide, which is the substance used to iodize common table salt—can prevent thyroid cancer by saturating the thyroid gland with a harmless type of iodine, keeping it from absorbing radioactive iodine that might be inhaled or ingested after a radiation release. Quake Renews Call to Enforce Pill Law
• The development of innovative new technologies and highly specific, nonradioactive labels has changed all of that. The Scientist
• Radioactive waste is simply spent fuel.
• The antidote is intended to protect residents from radioactive fallout from any missile attack on the nuclear station.
• A rather odd thing has just just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker; after being bitten by a radioactive spider, his body chemistry is mutagenically altered in that he can scale walls and ceilings, and he develops a "spider-sense" that warns him of approaching danger. Listal promoted
• The airborne radioactive particles have covered a huge area of Russia.
• A much larger, nonradioactive deposit of bastnaesite was found on adjoining land.
• Tap water in Kawaguchi City in Saitama north of Tokyo contained 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine — well above the 100 becquerels considered safe for babies but below the 300-becquerel level for adults, Health Ministry official Shogo Misawa said. Anxiety in Japan over radiation in tap water
• As Vitaly Fedchenko explains in this excellent article environmental samples are first screened by the IAEA using high resolution gamma ray spectrometry to detect radioactive particles-and that ain't much help in looking for magnox alloy. ArmsControlWonk
• Atomic number 101 is a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.