Sentences with phrase «radioactive releases into»

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

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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

If another earthquake causes another tsunami, all the stored radioactive water could be released into the ocean and the containment buildings could be left in even much worse shape than they were after the first hit.

Indian Point's operators reported that radioactive tritium - contaminated water leaked into the groundwater at the facility, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in a press release Saturday.

«We have to take care, because there are huge amounts of materials around the Fukushima nuclear plant,» he says, concerned that radioactive materials in the debris could be released into the atmosphere all over again if ignited.

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.

Densely packed pools are highly vulnerable to catching fire and releasing huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

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.

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

As Formaggio explains it, when a radioactive atom such as tritium decays, it turns into an isotope of helium and, in the process, also releases an electron and a neutrino.

To meet the ’10 000 year criterion», set by the DOE, the repository must not release «significant» amounts of its radioactive content into the environment during that period, no matter what changes occur in the local climate, geology or water table.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into the atmosphere by nuclear testing to settle a long - standing debate in neuroscience: Does the adult human brain produce new neurons?

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

But as the radioactive elements decay into more stable ones, they stop releasing heat and the interiors of these objects gradually cool, and any subsurface oceans will eventually freeze.

Nuclear accidents can release radioactive iodine into the environment, increasing the risk of thyroid cancer in exposed individuals, especially children [55,56].

Ever since a catastrophic earthquake hit Fukushima in March 2011, resulting in the meltdown of three nuclear reactors and the release of radioactive material into the surrounding environment, this rural northeastern region of Japan has never recovered.

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.