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in PRODUCT LIABILITY, any goods or electricity including any goods comprised in another product whether by virtue of being a component part or raw material or otherwise. ‘Goods’ is defined as including substances, growing crops and things comprised in land by virtue of being attached to it, and any ship, aircraft or vehicle.

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The fission product inventory calculation has been evaluated with ORIGEN2.2 code.

Numerical Simulation of Decontamination of Airborne Fission Products during In-Vessel Release Phase by Containment Spray

As Sakharov relates in his Memoirs, he worried so much about bomb-test fallout that in 1958 he made two remarkable predictions--that ingested fission products would cause many deaths (extrapolating from his figures, perhaps as many as 1 million premature deaths worldwide for every 50 megatons of bomb-test yield) and that the radiation would accelerate the mutation of all microorganisms.

The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom

[[Chi].sup.2] analyses indicated that the frequency of spermatocytes containing either the acrocentric (fission products) or the metacentric chromosomes was significantly different from random expectations in 3 of the 16 chromosomally intermediate individuals (table 3; inversion heterozygotes excluded).

Cytogenetic analysis of chromosomal intermediates from a hybrid zone between two chromosome races of the Sceloporus grammicus complex (Sauria, Phrynosomatidae)

As the fuel fissions in a reactor, the fraction of fission products

The Japanese nuclear incident: technical aspects

Also, many fission products quickly form stable fluorides that will stay within the salt during any leak or accident.

Too good to leave on the shelf: a reactor 40 years ago doesn't seem like a technology with much potential. But molten salt reactors could actually deliver on nuclear power's long-heralded promise of cheap and limitless energy

The vast majority of radioactivity created in nuclear fuels disappears rapidly after reactors shut down, as short-lived radioactive elements (so-called fission products) decay to become stable elements over periods of hours to days.

Nuclear waste and the distant future: regulation of nuclear hazards must be consistent with rules governing other hazardous materials and must balance its risks against those linked to other energy sources

The thyroid can be affected by ionizing radiation through the skin by gamma radiation, including X rays; by fission products, such as cesium; or by ingestion or inhalation of iodine-131 ([sup.131]I), an isotope present in nuclear fission products.

Disrupting a delicate balance: environmental effects on the thyroid

The research is focused on risks associated with high-level radioactive fission products. Certain components of this spent fuel are derived from nuclear reactor that continue to have a high-level of radioactivity for very long periods.

RESEARCH: NEW NUCLEAR WASTE PROCESSING LABORATORY

I participated in studies at Battelle in the 1970's that showed that the fuel can be reprocessed in such a way that the vast majority of the long-lived fission products, including the transuranic materials, such as plutonium, can be recycled and successfully used as a new reactor fuel material.

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Beyond normal operation, in the remote possibility of loss of control, even PBMRs producing somewhat more thermal power than the reactor planned by Eskom can withstand any series of failures without releasing fission products. That statement was proved by an experiment conducted in 1986 on the AVR, a German pebble bed reactor.

Alternative Nuclear Power

* The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident released large quantities of radioactive fission products over vast areas of the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.

1997 R&D 100 awards recognize high-tech elite

Because the fragments move at nearly the uranium beam's velocity and because they are totally stripped of electrons, "the fission products are much easier to detect than in previous experiments," Bernas explains.