fission-product contamination hazard
1Radioactive contamination — The radiation warning symbol (trefoil) …
2Nuclear reprocessing — technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel.[1] Reprocessing serves multiple purposes, whose relative importance has changed over time. Originally reprocessing was used solely to… …
3Nuclear fallout — Fallout redirects here. For other uses, see Fallout (disambiguation). Nuclear weapons History Warfare Arms race Design Testing …
4Operation Crossroads — Coordinates: 11°36′N 165°30′E / 11.6°N 165.5°E / 11.6; 165.5 …
5Caesium — xenon ← caesium → barium Rb ↑ Cs ↓ Fr …
6Pebble bed reactor — Sketch of a pebble bed reactor in Italian …
7Technetium — molybdenum ← technetium → ruthenium Mn ↑ Tc ↓ Re …
8nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …
9Radioactive waste — 2007 ISO radioactivity danger logo, designed in part for long term radioactive waste depositories which might survive into a far future time in which all knowledge of the meaning of present common radiation danger symbols and signs has been lost… …
10Technetium-99 — (99Tc) is an isotope of technetium which decays with a half life of 211,000 years, emitting soft beta rays but no gamma rays, and has a fission product yield of 6.0507% for thermal neutron fission of uranium 235. It is the most significant long… …
