WordNet
n. the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion [syn: fallout]
Usage examples of "radioactive dust".
He prayed that they weren't radioactive dust, but he had no way of knowing.
A blinding flash, a pillar of radioactive dust, and all this will be gone.
He had seen a blade scraper canopy blow up and kill a Psychlo long ago when some radioactive dust hit it.
It's to remove the radioactive dust before the exhaust air goes outdoors.
There were the radiation-proof barracks and the filtered atmosphere, free of radioactive dust.
Somehow, the radioactive dust in the cement bags must tie into it, but Rick couldn't imagine the connection.
There were the radiation proof barracks and the filtered atmosphere, free of radioactive dust.
Ferrel was vaguely familiar with the process of sowing radioactive dust in a circle outside the weevil area to isolate the pest, then gradually moving inward from the border.
Near the poles, a few deep and narrow valleys were only grazed slightly, and where three contained mines or caverns to offer some protection against the radioactive dust that fell everywhere, a measure of life went on after a fashion, and a thousand or so survived.