Sentences with phrase «radioactive source]»
The source of the leak, which was not radioactive, has been stopped.
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It all helps enable «precision policing,» which focuses on hard - core bad guys, as well as a sustained anti-gun effort to, as Shea puts it, make illegal firearms «radioactive.»
A radioactive material has been detected in the groundwater below the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.
But some experts and activists are concerned the route approval is a prelude to shipping highly radioactive liquid waste.
He also promised to secure more federal funding to clean up this and other radioactive sites.
US Senator Charles Schumer is calling on federal officials to expedite a long - awaited report on the potential threat posed by radioactive waste underneath the Tonawanda Landfill off Military Road.
«As The New York Times wrote this morning: `... nothing is so radioactive in the precincts of New York as the taint of Wall Street ties.»
The state lawmaker said among her concerns are education and job creation, as well as cleaning up radioactive waste in the St. Louis region.
The presence of radioactive waste in Niagara County may be more widespread than originally thought.
Dan Telvock of Investigative Post discusses the presence of radioactive waste in Niagara County during WBFO's Press Pass.
This would be a «radioactive» situation, according to the aide, because Senate Democratic leaders could not deny Blagojevich entry, as sitting governors have floor privileges in the Senate.
Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a «bad thing,» an «agonizing decision,» making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive.
The agreement requires Entergy to make repairs and upgrades to Indian Point and its storage system for the radioactive waste that remains after the fuel is used.
However, please do not bring mercury - containing or radioactive products.
Is any amount of radioactive readings in ground water a good thing?
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said tests had established a «significant quantity» of the radioactive isotope Polonium - 210 in his body.
The amount of radioactive tritium leaking from the Indian Point nuclear power plant is growing, according to tests released today.
Trucks are scheduled next year to carry thousands of gallons of radioactive nuclear waste across the Peace Bridge in trips from Ontario to South Carolina.
State environmental officials last night ordered Northrop Grumman to grant access to wells monitoring a Bethpage plume after the local water district reported levels of the radioactive element radium exceeded drinking water standards.
The Environmental Protection Agency hosted a public hearing on plans to remove radioactive waste in Queens.
Plans to bury Britain's radioactive waste deep underground should be acted on immediately without the need for further research, the Royal Society has said.
If radioactive ground water finds it's way into the Hudson can it could spread all the way to Manhattan.
~ Blasting earth's radioactive bedrock at high pressure with immense amounts of chemically laced water & sand causes multiple problems far too serious to ignore.
New York will investigate the Indian Point Energy Center after Cuomo said he learned that «radioactive tritium - contaminated water» leaked into the groundwater at the nuclear facility in Westchester County.
The home secretary reiterated that members of the public should not be overly worried by ongoing investigations into possible radioactive contamination.
Was it a mistake to pick the Labour Party symbol and then rinse it a rather radioactive azure, or a political statement?
Indian Point officials will send a camera - equipped robot into pipes beneath the nuclear power plant next week to try to find the source of radioactive material showing up in the groundwater below the plant.
Federally funded work to remove radioactive gravel from numerous hotspots in Niagara County has run out of money and come to a halt.
Dan Telvock continued his relentless coverage of lead poisoning in Buffalo's inner - city, radioactive contamination in Niagara County and pollution along Scajaquada Creek.
Heath said nuclear power produces spent fuel rods which are radioactive and require constant maintenance.
The former Russian spy was poisoned with radioactive Polonium 210.
They have also exhibited the pattern of behaviour to make this scenario credible, not least in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko using a radioactive isotope in 2006.
However, the government is taking on the liabilities for potential accidents and, crucially, the disposal of radioactive waste should the companies go bust.
As a matter of regular operation, radiation is released from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.
Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»
In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.
No containment structures exist over the spent fuel pools; the pools are vulnerable to a loss - of - coolant scenario; mock attack drills reveal accessibility to and vulnerability of spent fuel buildings; and two of the spent fuel pools at Indian Point have been leaking radioactive materials.
The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a long history of accidental radioactive leaks and spills: spent fuel pools at the plant housing toxic nuclear waste have been leaking since the 1990s; corroded buried pipes have sprung radioactive leaks; tanks have spilled hundreds of gallons radioactively contaminated water; and malfunctioning valves and pumps have leaked radionuclide - laden water.
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.
Since at least August 2005, radioactive contaminants such as tritium and strontium - 90 have been leaking from Indian Point's spent fuel pools into the groundwater and the Hudson River.
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Solid radioactive wastes include laundry (considered low - level waste) and irradiated spent fuel (considered high - level waste.)
Suffering both meltdowns and radioactive releases into the environment, Fukushima is considered the worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl.
And yet, exposure occurs constantly, since radiation is released regularly from Indian Point in the form of liquid, gaseous, and solid radioactive wastes.
Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.
The desalination plant would be sited only 3.5 miles downstream from the aging Indian Point nuclear plant, which is increasingly leaking radioactive tritium and strontium - 90 into the river.
However, radioactive releases from Indian Point's routine operation often are not fully detected or reported.
He was speaking in response to John Reid's statement in the House of Commons this afternoon, in which the home secretary confirmed that several people were being tested for traces of the radioactive material that killed Mr Litvinenko.
When I first found that the high level radioactive waste was lethal for 240,000 years, it changed my mind about nuclear power.
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in November 2006, almost three weeks after drinking tea poisoned with radioactive polonium - 210.