Sentences with phrase «kilometers around the plant»

• Japan has established a fishing exclusion zone of 20 kilometers around the plant, which could be extended depending on the amount of radioactivity found.

Not exact matches

RAYNE, La. (AP)-- A fire has broken out at a Louisiana chemical plant, sending massive smoke plumes in the air and prompting an evacuation for a mile (1.6 kilometers) all around.

In fact, a plume of radioactive contamination would spread for kilometers around the stricken nuclear power plant, shifting with the wind and weather.

The multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 caused a humanitarian disaster: Upwards of 100,000 people had to be evacuated from within a 20 - kilometer ring around the site.

The general population in northeastern Japan, however, has considerably less access to accurate, non-invasive radiation dose measuring equipment, a troubling situation made more so by Wednesday's announcement by Japan's science ministry that small amounts of cancer - causing radioactive strontium have been detected in soil and plants outside the 30 - kilometer zone around the plant where the government has advised people to stay indoors.

Now DOE has projected what the first - year dose would be to people living around the plant up to about 80 kilometers away (see map).

(2013) centers around the historic Asahiza cinema, built in 1923 in the town of Minamisoma, which now finds itself within the 30 - kilometer evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Mississippi Power owns 42 square miles (109 square kilometers) of land around the Kemper plant.

In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant, so called «clean coal,» which will store around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 2,1 kilometers (7,200 feet) underground.