Sentences with phrase «for radioactive water»

Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits walk past storage tanks for radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, on Nov. 7, 2013.

A worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami - crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016.

Not exact matches

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

You can wash off the contamination with soap and water — the traditional method — but that creates sizable reservoirs of radioactive runoff, which in turn has to be trapped, treated, and stored away for centuries.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

Today, TEPCO engineers unsuccessfully attempted to show that the radioactive water reaching the sea came from a flooded trench beneath reactor 2 which houses electrical cabling for the unit.

Investigations by The New York Times last winter revealed that sewage - treatment plants processing fracking wastewater are discharging radioactive fluid into public waterways, in some cases upstream of intake sites for drinking water.

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.

And the state would have to sort out how its laws for radioactive waste might apply to drilling and how the waste could impact water supplies and the environment.

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

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.

China and South Korea have both criticised Japan for pumping radioactive water into the sea, with Seoul calling it incompetent, reflecting growing international unease over the month - long atomic disaster and the spread of radiation.

There is no permanent solution for Fukushima's radioactive water, which has been leaking out of storage tanks again and again.

One man said that information given in the presentation confirmed what he had feared for many years: that livestock that graze and drink water in uranium mining areas can accumulate radioactive substances and heavy metals in their edible muscle and organs in levels that may harm the animals themselves and that could contribute to excessive doses in the people who eat the livestock meat.

We cry for the water stress we suffer, for your inability to react on time and for all thermal, radioactive, chemical, organic, hydrocarbon, and polychlorinated pollution you have caused in water.

It looks as though the onboard desalinization systems that take salt out of seawater to make it drinkable, were taking - in radioactive water from the ocean for the crew to drink, cook with and bath - in, before anyone realized there was a massive radiation spill into the ocean.»

While efforts are continuing to track down the water flow, the company known as TEPCO is considering installing «silt fence» barriers in areas where radioactive water is suspected to be flowing into the sea, Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government's nuclear safety agency told a press conference in the morning.

Florida company responsible for 215m gallons radioactive water leak admits delay informing public — RT America.

Three piping loops would cool the reactor: the primary loop (using molten sodium), an intermediate sodium loop between the radioactive primary system and the steam generators, and a water loop to generate steam for the turbine.

On that visit, Caldicott guaranteed headlines by advising residents to evacuate the town because «that radioactive waste will leak into the water for the rest of time».

Activist warns Port Hope that radioactive waste will leak into water and air «for the rest of time» was the headline in the Toronto Star.