How to Use radioisotope in a Sentence

radioisotope

noun

• The radioisotope is crucial for fueling long-term deep space missions, but as of 2017, a shortage was on the horizon.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2019
• The three radioisotope generators on ship, which use the slow decay of a lump of plutonium to provide it with electricity, could keep working for decades to come.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• After being injected with a radioisotope and riding a stationary bike, the young doctor was gentle in the face of discouraging films and old news.
  — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 8 Feb. 2018
• Curiously, the radioisotope levels found in Naen island’s soils — located around 100 miles away — were roughly the same as those found at the Castle Bravo explosion site.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• Additionally, the rover has eight radioisotope heater units (RHU) in its body providing about 8 watts of thermal energy.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2018
• Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Cassini, and New Horizons all used a radioisotope power source but used hydrazine fuel in a chemical engine that quickly flung them to the far reaches of the solar system.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• With a chemical makeup similar to calcium, strontium-90, a radioisotope found in fallout, is easily absorbed in teeth and bones.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Revisit the heated and messy history of plutonium-238, from the radioisotope's discovery and use in nuclear batteries for spacecraft to a botched CIA mission and a shortage that threatens to stop deep space exploration.
  — Dave Mosher, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2013
• But with a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) for power, the rover is not in any significant danger.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2018
• As a proof of principle, Cederwall and colleagues focused on detection of californium-252, a readily available radioisotope widely used as a proxy for weapons-grade plutonium.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 19 May 2021
• When a water leak caused by corrosion unexpectedly took the NRU offline later that same year, a global medical radioisotope shortfall ensued.
  — Tim Lougheed, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017
• Plutonium-238 is a radioisotope associated with nuclear waste and not generally with fallout, said Ivana Nikolic Hughes, a co-author of the research and an associate professor of chemistry at Columbia.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• Because of an editing error, two picture captions with an article last Sunday about the radioisotope Molybdenum-99 referred incorrectly to its role in medical diagnostics.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• Iodine 131 is a radioisotope created as a result of nuclear fission, which is why scientists believe the radiation release is the result of an accident at a nuclear facility.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2020
• The reactor itself became a globally dominant supplier of radioisotopes—in particular, molybdenum-99, a workhorse of medical imaging employed for millions of scans every year.
  — Tim Lougheed, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017
• Others hope to pry out the neutrino's mass by studying nuclei of holmium-163, a synthetic radioisotope, created with particle accelerators, that undergoes a process nearly the opposite of beta decay called electron capture.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
• The spacecrafts’ electric power, supplied by radioisotope thermoelectric generators, weakens each day.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Personnel remain at the facility, which is used for research, development and radioisotope production for medical and industrial applications.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2022
• Voyager and many satellites already use radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2021
• And just like Curiosity, Dragonfly will be nuclear-powered, carrying a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
  — Shannon Stirone, Scientific American, 27 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024