Florida company responsible for 215m
gallons radioactive water leak admits delay informing public — RT America.
Not exact matches
The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a long history of accidental
radioactive leaks and spills: spent fuel pools at the plant housing toxic nuclear waste have been leaking since the 1990s; corroded buried pipes have sprung
radioactive leaks; tanks have spilled hundreds of
gallons radioactively contaminated
water; and malfunctioning valves and pumps have leaked radionuclide - laden
water.
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.»
«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.
Fracking is known to use millions of
gallons of toxic and
radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking
water.