The Mayak releases included «repeated planned discharges
of radioactivity into the Techa River» as well as «many unexpected, so - called «wild overflows» and breakdowns».
Not exact matches
Tests conducted on water being dumped
into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels
of radioactivity millions
of times more than is normal in water.
«But the quantity
of radioactivity leaking
into the environment would be just as large.»
Places like the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north
of Times Square, would dump
radioactivity into the Hudson long after the lights went out.
They fear that uranium mining in the area could lead to the release
of radioactivity and heavy metals like selenium
into the Colorado River and its watershed, including within Grand Canyon National Park.
By the time the water reaches this area and is taken up
into seafood,
radioactivity is probably well diluted below what is probably dangerous for human consumption, but marine biologist Nicholas Fisher
of Stony Brook University in New York says that the study will be a useful baseline to understand how radiation is dispersed in the specific ocean patterns and sea life
of the Pacific.
«This strategy may allow better penetration
of larger tumours because the radioisotope can make its way deep
into the tumour before releasing the toxic
radioactivity trapped inside.»
A molecule - sized time bomb that smuggles a triple dose
of deadly
radioactivity into cancer cells has been developed.
An experiment performed by scientists at the Institute
of Academy
of Kiev confirmed that
radioactivity prevalent in the rice from the Fukushima region went down once the rice has been placed
into Agnihotra ash water.