Sentences with phrase «radioactive contamination around»
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.
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In fact, a plume of radioactive contamination would spread for kilometers around the stricken nuclear power plant, shifting with the wind and weather.
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 risk of reactors cracking open in a crash could be reduced by jettisoning them before impact and bringing them down with parachutes,» he told the Times of London, adding that, in the worst - case scenario, if the armor plating around the reactor was pierced «there would be a risk of radioactive contamination over a few square miles.»
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.