Sentences with phrase «radiation release»

Some researchers had argued that radiation released when the nuclear reactor exploded in 1986 would not cause thyroid cancer.

The utilities» decision to curtail new renewable energy projects stems from Japan's efforts to reform its electrical generation and delivery system following the March 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear radiation release at the Fukushima Daiichi power complex, generally considered the worst nuclear accident since 1986's Chernobyl accident in Ukraine.

In the event of an increased core temperature or a power failure, the hot liquid salt melts a plug at the bottom of the reactor and drains into passively cooled containment vessels, limiting the risk of radiation release into the environment.

Human sources of radiation released into the atmosphere over the past 60 years, although serious, pale in comparison to the radionuclides already naturally present in the ocean.

Even brief exposure to high radiation released from nuclear power plants or from bomb testing deranges DNA for generations to come, says Yuri Dubrova, a geneticist at the University of Leicester in England.

The triple disaster of the 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radiation releases at Fukushima Dai - ichi were, and continue to be, unprecedented events for the ocean and for society.

Officials said the decision to change the plant's nuclear safety level was due to cumulative radiation releases since the earthquake wreaked serious damage to the reactors, rather than a sudden deterioration in conditions.

Civic groups and individuals monitoring radiation released from the ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have produced a worrisome picture of contamination throughout eastern Japan.

Workers at Fukushima were forced to vent hydrogen and steam after fuel assemblies melted in order to prevent an even more catastrophic damage to reactor containment structures and a far greater radiation release.

News of multiple core meltdowns and radiation releases spurred governments to drop nuke projects like radioactive hot potatoes.

The option — mixing plutonium oxide with an inert material and disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)-- would require modifying the PMDA and increasing the statutory capacity of WIPP (operations at WIPP are currently uncertain due to the February accidental radiation release).

At electrical breakdown, the energies in the surging electrons were thousands of times greater than 10 — 19 MeV, so during the flood, bremsstrahlung radiation released a sea of neutrons throughout the crust.83 Subterranean water absorbed many of these neutrons, converting normal hydrogen (1H) into heavy hydrogen (2H, called deuterium) and normal oxygen (16O) into 18O.

you say, no it was on radiation release at Three Mile Island.

You fear radiation release.

The paper provides evidence that all the longwave IR radiation released to space comes from the Mesopause, the Tropopause, Cloud tops, and the surface.

Ongoing challenges with managing the damaged reactors — and concerns about radiation releases — mean the Fukushima disaster is far from over.

Other than the catastrophic scenario of widespread radiation release that kills people and renders large areas uninhabitable, one of nuclear power's most obvious environmental and safety problems stems from the periodic release of radiation.

From today's pipeline explosion in Kenya and nuclear plant explosion in the south of France, to word coming late last week about the effects of the Virginia earthquake on nuclear power, to the amount of radiation released into the sea in the Fukushima

He considered the radiation released by black holes after they form.

The main industry trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, commissioned studies that showed U.S. plants could sustain a direct hit from a modern airliner without any radiation release.

An alternative technique was developed by a team led by David Brenner, a radiation biophysicist at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, to plan a response to a radiation release by terrorists.

Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site

Last year's meeting in Jersey followed just a few months after the great tragedy that befell Japan in the form of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and radiation release, a terrible blow to a proud and accomplished people.

While the probability of a nuclear power accident may be small, the human and environmental consequences of a radiation release can be catastrophic.