Sentences with phrase «of radioactive contaminants»

The release of radioactive contaminants from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains an unprecedented event for the people of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.

The Polish scientists were looking to send someone to set up monitoring of radioactive contaminants in the upper atmosphere, the legacy of atomic - weapons testing by the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries in the 1950s.

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«There is simply no cost - effective way of removing radioactive iodine from water, but current methods of letting the ocean or rivers dilute the dangerous contaminant are just too risky,» said Chenfeng Ke, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth College.

«It's another facet of the impacts of low - dose - rate radioactive contaminants on the broader ecosystem,» Mousseau says.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

Researchers at Rice University and Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered that tiny bits of graphene oxide bond with radioactive contaminants, turning them into huge extractable clusters.