Sentences with phrase «highly radioactive water»

So Fukushima is still leaking tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific, even in December 2011, and plans more intentional dumping into the ocean, but declares their emissions to be «zero» due to the technicality of declaring it «a state of emergency».

Highly radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tons a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean - up.

Not exact matches

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

«The shallow underwater tests performed during that time did create a highly radioactive plume with some fission products trapped in the water, although that material disperses and gets diluted fairly quickly,» Lyman says.

They have been forced to pump low - level radioactive water, left by the tsunami, back into the sea in order to free up storage capacity for highly contaminated water from reactors.

Located about a mile underground, the formation's shale contains natural gas reserves and highly saline water laced with salts, metals and radioactive elements.