radioactive

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All the volunteers will have the current gold-standard tests for Alzheimer's which involve a specialised brain PET scan using a radioactive tracer, or a lumbar puncture to remove a sample of cerebrospinal fluid.

From BBC

Ionisation-based systems use a tiny amount of radioactive material to charge, or ionise, particles in the air which flow between two small plates.

From BBC

More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc stranded in Manila Bay for months have been brought ashore to a "safe place", the country's nuclear research director told AFP on Wednesday.

From Barron's

Five years later, when “Greenland 2: Migration” takes place, they’re living in a nuclear fallout bunker in Greenland, sheltering from radioactive storms with a group of survivors.

From Los Angeles Times

They succeeded in making radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and release photons in a controlled way, similar to how electrons behave inside atoms.

From Science Daily