Sentences with phrase «leak radioactivity»

The accident could have blocked the flow of coolant gas and caused the fuel in one of the reactor's 6156 channels to melt and leak radioactivity, but it was 9 hours before Nuclear Electric decided to shut down the reactor.

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This investigation is examining multiple unplanned shutdowns, a transformer fire that triggered the declaration of an unusual event level emergency, and most recently, a radioactive tritium leak that has caused groundwater radioactivity levels to rise more than 65,000 percent.

«But the quantity of radioactivity leaking into the environment would be just as large.»

• Water leaking from at least one of the reactors shows high levels of radioactivity, suggesting a potential core breach that could make the plant even more radioactive.

Three months after the tsunami - stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant began leaking unprecedented amounts of radioactive isotopes, an interdisciplinary group of scientists will begin measuring the radioactivity in the ocean east of Japan on 4 June.

In the direction that radioactivity is projected to leak from the site, the EPA extended the controlled area from five kilometers (km) to 18 km (from 3 miles to 11 miles).

However, it was shut down only four months later after about 700 kilograms of liquid sodium leaked from the secondary cooling loop and, although there were no injuries and no radioactivity escaped plant buildings, this was compounded by operator attempts to cover up the scale of the damage.

Borehold disposal is irretrievable, but has the Titanic demonstrability of fail - safeness in its favour: whatever vessels are put down the holes, if they leak, will have a similar task before them, if they are to pollute the strata above them with radioactivity, as saltshakers in the Titanic would have if they were to try, so to speak, to oversalt the ocean.