irradiated
Example Sentences
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The fruit, after being harvested, must be irradiated at one of a handful of certified government facilities in India, inspected by a U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The irradiated vessels were towed to Hunters Point, and used as the material and hardware upon which scientists tested decontamination methods.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
Sand-sized particles of irradiated nuclear fuel got into Dounreay's drainage system in the 1960s and 1970s.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Yet Johns abstract warnings of the perils of the unshielded cyclotron had less visceral impact on the staff than the fate of the very first mouse he irradiated with neutrons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
