Sentences with phrase «radioactive releases»

In the wake of radioactive releases from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, critics are saying a California nuclear plant's susceptibility to earthquakes and tsunamis could affect its chances of renewing its operating license.

The Irish Sea in 2008 showed elevated levels compared to large ocean basins as a result of radioactive releases from the Sellafield reprocessing facility at Seacastle, U.K. Levels in the Baltic and Black Seas are elevated due to fallout from the 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

As the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was unfolding in March 2011, Ryugo Hayano started posting Twitter observations about radioactive releases.

If there is no subsequent radioactive release, that demonstrates that there are living microbes on Mars.

«The WHO report shamelessly downplays the impact of early radioactive releases from the Fukushima disaster on people inside the 20 km evacuation zone who were not able to leave the area quickly,» says Rianne Teule, a nuclear expert at Greenpeace International.

The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent - fuel pool at an average nuclear reactor site would cause $ 125 billion in damages, while expedited transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from pool fires by 99 percent.

At least, the threat of radioactive release in Japan seems to be contained to the Fukushima Daiichi facility (Japan has a total of 54 nuclear reactors at various facilities).

At issue were questions pertaining to ground and surface water flows, wetlands, the topography and geology of the site, radioactive release scenarios, and on and on and on.

Suffering both meltdowns and radioactive releases into the environment, Fukushima is considered the worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl.

However, radioactive releases from Indian Point's routine operation often are not fully detected or reported.

His MSc thesis (1987) dealt with the description and application of a system for calculating radiation doses due to long range transport of radioactive releases and his Licentiates's thesis (1998) studied the effective choice of NOx - emission control measures.

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

The NRC nonetheless permits its use because «the Mark I can survive long enough to allow for actions that keep the public safe in the event of a radioactive release,» Burnell says.

Greenpeace says it will ask for a judicial review on the grounds that the environment secretary has failed to justify the radioactive releases as required by law.

This is because not every radioactive release contains the radioactive iodine that causes thyroid cancer.

The additional exposures received by most Japanese people in the first year and subsequent years due to the radioactive releases from the accident are less than the doses received from natural background radiation (which is about 2.1 mSv per year).

prompt assistance in the event of a nuclear accident or radiological emergency to minimize its consequences and to protect life, property and the environment from the effects of radioactive releases