Sentences with phrase «radioactive releases from»

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).

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 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.

«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.

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

Not exact matches

And yet, exposure occurs constantly, since radiation is released regularly from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.

As a matter of regular operation, radiation is released from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.

The amount of radioactive tritium leaking from the Indian Point nuclear power plant is growing, according to tests released today.

Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.

The release of radioactive contaminants from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains an unprecedented event for the people of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.

They also have filtered venting systems so that even if cooling fails and pressure starts to build in the containment building, radioactive iodine and caesium can be removed from the steam before it is released.

«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 pattern of prevailing winds during the accident meant that most of the radioactive materials released from the plant were blown out to sea.

Gummer approved limits for the amounts of radioactive substances that can be released from the Sellafield complex with a few minor changes.

Fracking wastewater is laden with chemicals used to drill and frack the well and may also contain radioactive compounds and heavy metals released from deep underground.

This is potentially more worrying than the venting of contaminated gases from reactors 1, 2 and 3, as the fire released radioactive material straight into the atmosphere.

Highly packed spent fuel pools at the Japanese facility have caught fire, lost coolant, and released unknown quantities of radioactive material, underscoring the need to remove as much fuel from overcrowded pools as possible.

Cromolyn inhibited histamine release from mast cells that was induced by a classic secretagogue and correspondingly increased incorporation of radioactive phosphate into a 78,000 - dalton protein.

This raised the original rating from level 5 and puts the Fukushima Daiichi disaster technically in the same category as Chernobyl, although the quantity of discharged radioactive materials in Japan so far is about 10 percent of what was released by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, considered history's worst nuclear accident.

The new study revealed a previously unsuspected pathway for radioactive material to be transported, stored for years, and subsequently released far from the site where it was initially discharged.

Marine scientists have calculated that, based on all the radioactive particles released (or leaking) from Fukushima, a dose due to this most recent nuclear accident would add up to a total of roughly one microsievert (a unit of radiation exposure) of extra radiation — roughly one tenth the average daily dose most Americans experience, one fortieth the amount from a cross — North America flight and one one - hundredth the exposure from a dental x-ray.

Leaks have released radioactive hydrogen — tritium — into the environment at reactors from Vermont to Illinois.

Further complicating this option, there was an accidental release of radioactive material from WIPP in February.

The first system — radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs — taps heat released from the natural decay of a radioactive element, such as plutonium.

One researcher said the new data confirms that radioactive materials are still being released from plants even today.

Radon is an invisible and odourless radioactive gas that's released from the ground thanks to radium (which comes from uranium).

Many dogs that eat small fish and sardine and herring oil appear to have elevated levels of strontium, a radioactive element that has been released in large quantities from the nuclear power plant involved in the Fukushima disaster, which is still going on.

I think you'll agree this is one of the more colourful Disney Infinity Playsets to be released with the assortment of colours from Buzz's almost radioactive green to Jessie's pastel pink.

Quite apart from arguments about «responsible solutions» (let's not do that again), an isotope that's radioactive has potential energy — that's what makes it radioactive, after all — so that in principle transmuting it to a more stable isotope * should release energy, which could be harnessed.

and what about the 400 + nuclear reactors worldwide that need workers and constant maintainance to keep them running so they do nt go in to full blown meltdown and make the planet a radioactive wasteland eh + the unstoppable feedback loop of methane release and the earths athmosphere becoming more like venus... the elitists do nt seem so worried that geoengineering is destroying their planet too... maybe because they've got the deep underground military bases or hardened bunkers that can sustain them for many years or might the real manipulators not be from the earth itself??

Earthquakes also release stored elastic potential energy in rocks, a kind of mechanical potential energy which has been produced ultimately from the same radioactive heat sources.

-- The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall establish generally applicable environmental standards for the protection of the public and the general environment from radioactive material released from facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.

Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency has claimed that the release of radioactive materials from Fukushima was equal to 10 % of those from Chernobyl.