Nuclear radiation definition

Nuclear radiation means the absorption of electro-magnetic radiation by a nucleus having a magnetic moment when in an external magnetic field.
Nuclear radiation means the absorption of electromagnetic
Nuclear radiation means the use, existence or escape of nuclear weapons material or ionising radiation from or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Examples of Nuclear radiation in a sentence

  • Xx. Xxxxxxxxxx also participated in recent Review Panels: NIH-NCI SBIR Special Emphasis Group (March 2006); NIH-NCI/NIAID Countermeasures to Nuclear Radiation Terrorism (June 2005); and NIH-NCI National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups for Cancer (October 2004).

  • Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Nuclear Radiation: Risks and Benefits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).


More Definitions of Nuclear radiation

Nuclear radiation means ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or nuclear waste, from the combustion of nuclear fuel (including any self-sustained process of nuclear fission), or from any nuclear weapons material.
Nuclear radiation means the absorption of the electro-magnetic radiation by a nucleus having a magnetic moment when in an external magnetic field.
Nuclear radiation. Means the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by a nucleus having a magnetic moment when in an external magnetic field.

Related to Nuclear radiation

  • Nuclear reactor means any apparatus designed or used to sustain nuclear fission in a self-supporting chain reaction or to contain a critical mass of fissionable material.

  • High global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons means any hydrofluorocarbons in a particular end use for which EPA’s Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program has identified other acceptable alternatives that have lower global warming potential. The SNAP list of alternatives is found at 40 CFR part 82, subpart G, with supplemental tables of alternatives available at (http://www.epa.gov/snap/ ).

  • Nuclear material means source material, special nuclear material or by-product material;