Sentences with phrase «level radioactive water»

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.

Not exact matches

State environmental officials last night ordered Northrop Grumman to grant access to wells monitoring a Bethpage plume after the local water district reported levels of the radioactive element radium exceeded drinking water standards.

DEC wastewater samples had levels of radioactive elements thousands of times higher than drinking water limits, ProPublica reported.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

Bottom - dwelling fish continue to be found with high levels of radioactive elements, potentially coming from leaking radioactive water or contaminated sediments

But fish and seaweed could concentrate radioactive particles to levels higher than those in the surrounding waters, so monitoring will be crucial to assess the impact on marine life.

• 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.

The sludge, which engulfed hundreds of acres, damaged lakeside homes and polluted drinking water in Tennessee contained high levels of arsenic and elevated levels of radioactive radium, reported Duke University scientists.

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.

Note: At least one of the YouTube posters (Shazzy Mazzy of The News Insight) and Victoria Woollaston, the reporter who covered the drone tapes from the Daily Mail Online, appear skeptical about radiation dangers to life on earth: «many of these areas are said to be covered in radioactive soil,» «reports claim the soil and water in the region still contains high levels of radiation that makes the clean - up effort difficult.»