Sentences with phrase «radioactive contamination»

That broad - brush impression of radioactive contamination of the landscape isn't sufficient for population studies.

The issue was higher than normal radioactive contamination in the water that the fuel rods heat to produce steam.

The home secretary reiterated that members of the public should not be overly worried by ongoing investigations into possible radioactive contamination.

This procedure is only performed by a specialist, and the cat must be hospitalized for up to a week to avoid radioactive contamination of the owners.

Pascale's analysis identified three primary ways in which the news outlets minimized the risk posed by radioactive contamination to the general population.

The 15 - meter tsunami that hit Japan damaged several nuclear power plants, which then leaked radioactive contamination into the environment.

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.

That means there's a risk of radioactive contamination spreading not only within North Korea, but to other countries in the region.

A clean - water group filed a lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his state Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Navy and the United States saying that authorities have failed to properly investigate radioactive contamination in Bethpage.

But it is unclear how much residual radioactive contamination is still entering the sea from leaks around the Fukushima plant, says Scott Fowler, a marine ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York who has been involved in previous assessments of contamination levels in the ocean near Fukushima.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that radioactive contamination outside the evacuation zone has exceeded levels at which people should relocate.

The monitoring has also uncovered hitherto unknown radioactive contamination on several other parts of the site.

The NRC cost - benefit analysis assumed there would be no consequences from radioactive contamination beyond 50 miles from a fire.

The Chernobyl disaster was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m., consisting of an explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the surrounding geographic area.

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

Otaki and colleagues collected leaves 16 to 20 months after the accident, after short - lived radioactive contamination had decayed, but this time from locations ranging from 59 to 1760 kilometers from the power plant; contamination levels ranged from 161 to 0.2 Bq / kg.

Xiao and the board members of his company were all contaminated with radioactive contamination and all became the body of the 10 - year - old child.

Nissan is monitoring all of its vehicles built in Japan for possible radioactive contamination due to the disaster in the country.

In addition to avoiding the risk of future radioactive contamination of air, water, and crops, Japan would save tens of billions of dollars annually on imported energy.

Writing over at Permaculture Magazine, he sets out an eight - point plan for how we can use mushrooms to clean up radioactive contamination around the stricken Fukushima power plant in Japan.

And while human health is a concern in any case involving radioactive contamination, let's not forget that any leaks will also effect the local ecosystems, impacting the health of local wildlife, particularly vulnerable aquatic species.

Nuclear reaction / radiation / radioactive contamination damages won't be covered.

St. Louis County is teaming up with federal scientists to assess health risks from radioactive contamination in and around Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis County.

The team concluded that the bacteria and fungi that decompose plant matter in healthy ecosystems are hindered by radioactive contamination.

NuScale's design incorporates seven layers of defense to prevent the release of radiation or radioactive contamination into the environment.

The footage showed plans for a submarine that could travel 6,200 miles at 100 knots underwater and detonate a megaton - class thermonuclear weapon to create «wide areas of radioactive contamination,» according to a BBC translation of the photographed document.

And if you've been exposed to fallout, there's a process to remove that radioactive contamination:

The submarine was designed to «destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time,» the BBC reported.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected plans by the West Chicago Park District to build a $ 3.5 million aquatic center in Reed - Keppler Park following the discovery of radioactive contamination that can not be safely excavated.

Dan Telvock continued his relentless coverage of lead poisoning in Buffalo's inner - city, radioactive contamination in Niagara County and pollution along Scajaquada Creek.

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

This type of waste often consists of items such as used protective clothing, which is only slightly contaminated but still dangerous in case of radioactive contamination of a human body through ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or injection.

One real effect of the radioactive contamination is the gnawing fear — groundless or not — that low levels of radiation could harm their children.

Just after the 11 March disaster, much of the radioactive contamination from the reactor complex was swept out to sea.

Mushrooms are potential miracle workers, capable of cleaning up oil spills and radioactive contamination, filtering bacteria - tainted wastewater, speeding reforestation of clear - cut woodlands, boosting agricultural yields, controlling insect pests and treating ailments ranging from cancer and bird flu to diabetes and dementia.

Co-author Tom Hinton, from the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity at Fukushima University in Japan, acknowledges that the study did not probe how the radioactive contamination has affected individuals.

But some scientists argue that the study glosses over findings showing that the radioactive contamination has damaged individual animals.

The researchers, Biller says, «really pushed the cutting edge, achieving ridiculously low levels of radioactive contamination.»

Besides fearing an explosion, he says, Russia is worried that Norway might demand compensation if any radioactive contamination of fish is ever traced to the Komsomolets.

Nor is the radioactive contamination from Fukushima the cause of changes to Pacific sea - bottom life observed in recent years off the U.S. west coast, as the marine scientists at Deep Sea News recently noted.

Moreover, radioactive contamination has spread to a 30 - kilometer radius of the stricken plant, including to towns even farther afield, such as Iitate, which is so contaminated that it will have to be abandoned or its soil scooped up and entirely replaced.

The 1986 nuclear disaster released 400 atomic bombs» worth of radioactive contamination and will ultimately be responsible for 10,000 human deaths.

Dafydd Rhys Jones of IGER says that 80 per cent of the radioactive contamination is still in the soil.

«There's been growing concern by many different groups of the potential for catastrophic forest fires to sweep through this part of the world and redistribute the radioactive contamination that is in the trees and the plant biomass,» Mousseau says.

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.