Sentences with phrase «of nuclear contamination»

In July, 14 doctors from the islands signed an open letter claiming that leukaemias, cancers and fish poisoning had increased among the 18 000 residents as a result of nuclear contamination.

Above, is the location of a nuclear contamination test in a lake close to the site of the Kyshtym nuclear disaster.

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The Japanese government's most controversial misstep in response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis may have been the release of guidelines on allowable radiological contamination in schoolyards.

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

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

Unfortunately, Krause says, only a few of the mummies» nuclear genomes were well preserved, and even fewer passed his strict contamination tests.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

But today the US is producing no new nuclear weapons, and Rocky Flats closed down in the early 1990s leaving behind an environmental legacy of contamination with plutonium and other toxic chemicals.

But with about half of the world's nuclear power plants located on coastlines, such areas are potentially important contamination reservoirs and release sites to monitor after future accidents.

Robots cleaned up what humans could not because of radioactive contamination after the worst nuclear accident in the nation's history 30 years ago

Mindful that drinking contaminated milk led to most of the cancers that resulted from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, the Japanese government also launched a massive effort to check foods for contamination and ban any items exceeding set limits.

It also resulted in the largest nuclear contamination accident in U.S. history, as shifting winds carried radioactive fallout across the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Ailinginae and Utirik as well as Rongerik — where U.S. servicemen were stationed — in the central Pacific's Marshall Islands.

Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in St. Petersburg, and colleagues in France and Russia described how the team searched for traces of bacterial DNA in ultraclean laboratory conditions and used four sets of controls to reduce the chance of contamination.

Researchers from California State University, Long Beach and Berkeley Lab have launched «Kelp Watch 2014,» a scientific campaign designed to determine the extent of radioactive contamination of the state's kelp forest from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

The Ambushed Grand Jury is the true story of four Citizen Investigators who uncover the Justice Department's cover - up of deadly radioactive contamination at Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.

A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace reveals that residents living in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters continue to suffer from the adverse effects of radioactive contamination.

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A Bush administration proposal that would create more contamination and waste problems, and cost hundreds of billions of dollars is the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP).

There are so many other reasons for cancer to be taken in account, i.e. stress, inherited genetics, chemical & nuclear contamination of the whole environment we live in (less and less natural materials around), bad habits (smocking & alcohol), lack of physical activity, which results in bad metabolism and inability for our bodies to release toxins, etc, etc..

Set in a near - future United States ravaged by nuclear fallout, widespread plagues, and chemical contamination, Armageddon's Children follows a handful of unlikely heroes as they struggle to survive in a poisoned world infested by demons, insane «once - men,» and other mutant creatures too horrific to describe.

These include war, or threat of war, riots, civil strife, terrorism, contamination, extreme or unusual weather conditions, industrial disputes, changes to sports itineraries, natural and nuclear disasters, fire, flight cancellations or rescheduling by airlines or any similar event beyond our control.

In short, fear of nuclear war drove home images of radiation as an insidious contamination that was uniquely deadly on a global scale.

Over his career, Commoner worked on nuclear fallout, pesticides, water contamination, air pollution, toxic metals, the petrochemical industry, population, energy and nuclear power, urban waste disposal, dioxin, recycling, and all manner of other environmental issues.

Nuclear: Uranium mining can result in serious contamination of groundwater, while the running of nuclear power plants requires a lot of water for the cooling of its sNuclear: Uranium mining can result in serious contamination of groundwater, while the running of nuclear power plants requires a lot of water for the cooling of its snuclear power plants requires a lot of water for the cooling of its systems.

The Act arises from a letter from a group of health physicists who pointed out that the limited understanding of low - dose health risks impairs the nation's decision - making capabilities, whether in responding to radiological events involving large populations such as the 2011 Fukushima accident or in areas such as the rapid increase in radiation - based medical procedures, the cleanup of radioactive contamination from legacy sites and the expansion of civilian nuclear energy.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

The collection of writings is diverse in geographic focus and issue - areas: including climate change, «megadams», nuclear testing, tree planting, toxic contamination, fossil fuel extraction, and the environmental consequences of armed conflict.

As far as is known, the risks from this type of low level contamination are small, but as we contemplate on one hand trying to clear up all the old nuclear sites, and on the other, building new plants, it may be wise to think about the long term implications of relying on nuclear energy.

For my part, I have no problem with nuclear power, but we have to seriously rethink how we go about handling and processing spent fuel, i.e. recycling it more effectively, to reduce the waste and possibility of contamination as much as possible.

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emiNuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas eminuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Pushing Political Buttons for A Nuclear Waste Dump WSC, on the other hand, states that no contamination of the aquifer is possible.

We made historic progress in cleaning up nuclear contamination leftover from the Cold War, reducing the total footprint by nearly 75 percent and permanently cleaning up 690 square miles of contaminated land — an area more than 30 times the size of Manhattan.

Due to factors such as wind direction, the nuclear blast released radiation «in a very patchy manner, so while the highest areas of contamination are closest to the plant, there are also areas of higher radiation quite a ways away from the reactor,» Mousseau said.

People — much more widely than the «soft left» have concerns and aversions to nuclear energy because of the problem of contamination, waste and nuclear accidents.

Tokyo residents worry about radiation following reports of further contamination escaping from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power station.

On the civil side, at the trial court level, Quinn Emanuel has successfully defended clients in matters ranging from nuclear waste disposal and the operation of industrial facilities and landfills to oil spills and soil and groundwater contamination.

Any liability caused by or due to consequential event due to ionising, radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from, any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

War or any act of war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, war like operations, civil war, public defense, rebellion revolution, insurrection, military or usurped acts, riot, terrorism, chemical, radioactive or nuclear contamination.

The Total and Permanent Disability is not applicable if the disability was caused directly or indirectly by alcohol or drug abuse, failure to seek or follow medical advice, engaging in racing of any kind excluding athletics and swimming, any kind of war or riots, nuclear contamination, participation in hazardous pastimes, any mental or functional disorder, attempted suicide or self injury, etc..

For any claim arising from damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expenses whatsoever resulting or arising from or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste from the combustion fuel or the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof.

The direct or indirect use of nuclear materials, which results in nuclear radiation, reaction, radioactive contamination.

Any bodily injury to the Insured person, consequential loss, legal liability, directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the Combustion of nuclear fuel.

Ioinising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel OR

Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Loss or damage due to ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel is excluded from the insurance plan.

Damage or loss caused because of nuclear perils, war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities, pollution, contamination, deliberate misconduct or negligence, willful property destruction, normal wear and tear, gradual deterioration and similar such gradually developing flaws are all excluded under this plan.

NUCLEAR RISK - Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nucleaNUCLEAR RISK - Damage, deconstruction or loss to property is insured by — i) ionising radiation, or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nucleanuclear fuel or wastage from the combustion of nuclearnuclear fuel.

Directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from ionising radiation or contamination by radioactive substance from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel.

Ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste, from combustion of nuclear fuel, the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any nuclear assembly or nuclear component of such assembly.

Such plans do not cover damage due to nuclear explosion, radioactive contamination, invasion, military activity, or acts of war.