radioactive
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Prison bosses later faced formal censure proceedings after inmates and staff were exposed to dangerous levels of the naturally occurring radioactive gas.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Poisoned by the overwhelmingly toxic culture of time, the film’s downward-punching humor is as radioactive as its future’s fallow fields.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Amid ongoing instability, any new natural-uranium reactor would risk radioactive hazards or diversion of material into the wrong hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
They are released when excited atomic nuclei lose energy and move into lower, more stable states during radioactive decay.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
If there really was a fire in one of the storage pools, there was nothing to hold in radioactive materials, which would be carried in the smoke.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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