Sentences with phrase «lived radioactive gases»

The slow upward flow of water insures that the short lived radioactive gases produced by fission die off before the reactor coolant reaches the above - ground portion of the plant (another bonus of gravity driven flow!).

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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.»

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

Experiments with radioactive methane revealed that bacteria living in the moss rapidly converted the gas into carbon dioxide which was then sucked up by the moss.

After cigarette smoking, the radioactive gas — called radon — is the second leading cause of lung cancer deaths in the U.S., claiming the lives of about 21,000 people each year.