radioactive
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PET is a medical imaging method that tracks radioactive tracers inside the body to reveal activity in organs and tissues.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Environmental Protection Agency website notes that “multiple government agencies” approved the deep-ocean disposal of some refinery and chemical waste and military and radioactive junk, but it doesn’t specify DDT.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He said this created a "multi-generational financial and environmental liability", leaving our descendants with years of flood defence maintenance and the "insurmountable challenge of safe, millennia-long, highly radioactive nuclear waste isolation, amid a changing climate".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
We’re proud of the results we’ve achieved over the past 17 months against air and water pollution, lead poisoning, ozone depletion and radioactive waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
But radioactive isotopes—the broken bits themselves—can travel far from their source.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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