Sentences with phrase «radioactive contamination at»

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.

Not exact matches

And, indeed, there have been numerous incidents at the plant, including leakage of the radioactive isotopes tritium and strontium - 90 into the Hudson River, contamination of groundwater and, last year alone, voluntary venting of «mildly radioactive» steam, plus a transformer explosion.

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.

«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.

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

Her research shows that high - pressure fluids striking the shale could dislodge naturally occurring radioactive compounds such as uranium and strontium, putting groundwater at risk of contamination.

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.