Sentences with phrase «radioactive water»

Four years after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the disaster no longer dominates U.S. news headlines, though the disabled plant continues to pour three tons of radioactive water into the ocean each day.

THE world's most beleaguered electricity company drew more flak this week with a proposal to dump 11,500 tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

In the last month alone we have seen news of radioactive water leaks at the site, lawsuits from U.S. Navy sailors who responded to the initial disaster and are now developing cancer and ongoing harm to the fishing industry.

Dangerous levels of radioactive water from natural gas drilling operations is being released into streams that feed into the water supply of western Pennsylvania cities.

A worker, wearing protective suits and masks, takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami - crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 10, 2016.

Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits walk past storage tanks for radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, on Nov. 7, 2013.

They have been forced to pump low - level radioactive water, left by the tsunami, back into the sea in order to free up storage capacity for highly contaminated water from reactors.

A nuclear waste disposal facility being used to store radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant will soon be full, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said Monday.

So Fukushima is still leaking tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific, even in December 2011, and plans more intentional dumping into the ocean, but declares their emissions to be «zero» due to the technicality of declaring it «a state of emergency».

«The men entered the basement in wetsuits, radioactive water up to their knees, in a corridor stuffed with myriad pipes and valves,» he continues, «it was like finding a needle in a haystack.»

Government regulations allow radioactive water to be released from Indian Point nuclear power plant to the environment containing «permissible» levels of contamination.

At present, TEPCO is storing more than 300,000 tons of radioactive water on the site of the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi plant.

And at Fukushima, radioactive water continues to escape from the damaged power plant into the ocean.

There are literally thousands of tons of radioactive water pooled in the power plant's basement.

If the workers are partially shielded, like the three who stepped into radioactive water last month, their unaffected bone marrow will replenish the destroyed cells.

The crisis reopened questions about how to deal with the flood of radioactive water accumulating at Fukushima.

Six workers in October were exposed to radioactive water when one of them detached a pipe connected to a treatment system.

China and South Korea have both criticised Japan for pumping radioactive water into the sea, with Seoul calling it incompetent, reflecting growing international unease over the month - long atomic disaster and the spread of radiation.

The Japanese utility TEPCO, which went bankrupt and was bailed out at huge cost by the people of Japan, continues to pump out very radioactive water, to be stored in an ever - increasing vast tank farm on the site.

The first person she finds is an engineer, Loomis played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who initially makes the mistake of jumping into radioactive water getting sick.

Safety officials said the amounts did not pose a risk to humans, but they said the finding supports suspicions that dangerously radioactive water is leaking from damaged nuclear fuel rods.

While efforts are continuing to track down the water flow, the company known as TEPCO is considering installing «silt fence» barriers in areas where radioactive water is suspected to be flowing into the sea, Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government's nuclear safety agency told a press conference in the morning.

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But Breeder Reactors re-use radioactive water waist over and over again, depleting radioactivity and reducing waste.

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.

Highly radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tons a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean - up.

«This latest incident isn't the first time Indian Point has been responsible for radioactive water and unless we get serious about shutting this place down, it's far from the last,» he said in a statement.

With the crisis spawned by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami heading into its second month, the utility, known as Tepco, had planned to complete on Saturday the dumping of low - level radioactive water that had flooded the plant's waste - processing facility.

«This is not the first such release of radioactive water at Indian Point, nor is this the first time that Indian Point has experienced significant failure in its operation and maintenance,» Cuomo said in a statement.

• The power plant has dumped about 11,000 tons of water (11 million liters) of radioactive water into the ocean to make room for storage containers holding water that is even more radioactive.

He now wants all three agencies to integrate their investigations to explore whether operational problems that he says are suspected to have caused the uptick in unexpected outages of the plant may also be causing the leak of radioactive water.

The most popular (and likely apocryphal) version of events then goes something like this: One soldier and two plant workers, all volunteers, bravely strapped on wetsuits and clamored into the radioactive water.

Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant is still not completely fixed, and workers are now emptying some of the less radioactive water into the sea to make room in the plant's storage for more radioactive water.

The leakage earlier this month of hundreds of tons of radioactive water — the most serious incident at the beleaguered plant since it was devastated by a tsunami in March 2011 — highlights the failure by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to properly manage the operation.

Bottom - dwelling fish continue to be found with high levels of radioactive elements, potentially coming from leaking radioactive water or contaminated sediments

The idea was that the polymer would absorb the radioactive water, and would then be recovered and disposed of safely.

Today, TEPCO engineers unsuccessfully attempted to show that the radioactive water reaching the sea came from a flooded trench beneath reactor 2 which houses electrical cabling for the unit.

By Faith Hung and Antoni Slodkowski TAIPEI / TOKYO (Reuters)- A nuclear power plant in Taiwan may have been leaking radioactive water for three years, the government has said, adding to a growing crisis of confidence in North Asia about nuclear safety.

JAPAN»S beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility made headlines again last week, when it was reported that some 305 tonnes of radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank.

There is no permanent solution for Fukushima's radioactive water, which has been leaking out of storage tanks again and again.

300 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked into the ground at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant according to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

The Japanese government announced plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into measures to stop the Fukushima nuclear plant leaking radioactive water.

He tries talking her into using the wood of her late father's church to build a rig to power the farm with the spring's radioactive water, but stops short of pressuring her.

Five years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the site still teems with 7,000 workers attempting to contain its radioactive water and debris, while radiation remains hot enough to fry the wiring in robots ferreting out melted fuel rods.

«About 200,000 tons of radioactive water — enough to fill more than 50 Olympic - sized swimming pools — are being stored in hundreds of gigantic tanks built around the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

There was no widespread nuclear disaster, but the Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted that a radioactive water leak occurred at one plant, but claimed it posed no threat.

You might find yourself acquiring traffic tickets faster than the radioactive water spilling into the Pacific from the Fukishima nuclear plant.