Sentences with phrase «radiation leaks at»

You reported the World Health Organization's predictions of health impacts from radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan (9 March, p 4).

You reported the World Health Organization's predictions of health impacts from radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in...

As worries grow over radiation leaks at Fukushima, is it possible to gauge the immediate and lasting health effects of radiation exposure?

«Financial markets have been rattled by the growing risk posed by potential radiation leaks at the stricken nuclear power plants in Japan,» said Lee Hardman, an analyst at The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Japan's Nikkei stock index nose - dived more than 12 percent Tuesday as the earthquake - shattered country faced an unfolding nuclear crisis after a radiation leak was detected at a crippled power plant.

Investors took fright on the news that a radiation leak was detected at a crippled power plant and residents were warned to stay indoors.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plant.

Interestingly, at least once the censorship seemed to work for the social good: when a false rumour started that eating iodised salt, rather than potassium iodide pills, would protect people from radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, the censors deleted the messages.

New Mexico Senator Peter Wirth said on Friday that a Los Alamos scientist who appeared on Wednesday before the state legislature's Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee revealed that the drum that leaked radiation was improperly packaged at Los Alamos with chemically reactive contents that included a lead - lined glove.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake - damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:

Once the radiation limits begin to be increased this should have a catalytic effect on reducing emissions: 1) it will mean radiation leaks are understood to be less dangerous that currently thought > less people evacuated from effected zones > reduced cost accident of accidents — reduced accident insurance cost; 2) population takes another look at the effects of radiation > gains an understanding it is much less harmful than they thought > fear subsides > less opposition > easier and less expensive to find sites supported by the people nearby > planning and sight approval costs come down over time

GELLERMAN: There are «dangerously high» radiation levels in water leaking from Reactor number 3 at Japan's Fukushima plant.

Despite the hyperbolic nature of some of the media coverage, even substantial radiation leaks such as at Fukushima are likely to cause very little or no illness or death.