Sentences with phrase «radioactive water from»

It looks as though the onboard desalinization systems that take salt out of seawater to make it drinkable, were taking - in radioactive water from the ocean for the crew to drink, cook with and bath - in, before anyone realized there was a massive radiation spill into the ocean.»

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.

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.

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Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic waste water from a fracked well have not been rectified.

To track the antibiotic's journey from water to pepper, the researchers labeled TCC with radioactive carbon (C14).

Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

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

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

«There is simply no cost - effective way of removing radioactive iodine from water, but current methods of letting the ocean or rivers dilute the dangerous contaminant are just too risky,» said Chenfeng Ke, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth College.

But the crescent - shaped C. moniliferum caught Krejci's eye because of its unusual ability to remove strontium from water, depositing it in crystals that form in subcellular structures known as vacuoles — an knack that could include the radioactive isotope strontium 90.

The waste, hot from radioactive decay, is held in deep pools of water or in «dry casks» of concrete and steel that sit on reinforced pads.

Workers built an elaborate scrubbing system that removes cesium, strontium and dozens of other radioactive particles from the water; some of it is recirculated into the reactors, and some goes into row upon row of giant tanks at the site.

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.

• Water leaking from at least one of the reactors shows high levels of radioactivity, suggesting a potential core breach that could make the plant even more radioactive.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

Another perennial concern is that the water contaminated with radioactive particles still leaking from the stricken nuclear power plant site is poisoning Pacific Ocean fish and other seafood.

Worldwide deforestation, mining, overgrazing, and the diversion of water have combined to create huge dust clouds that carry bacteria, viruses, soot, acids, radioactive isotopes, and pesticides from Asia and Africa to the United States

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.

Compounding concerns, reports from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leaked earlier in the year indicated that fracking wastewater is too radioactive to be handled safely by water treatment plants.

Typically, pressurized water reactors» containment systems consist of a concrete dome reinforced with steel to prevent radioactive fumes from escaping during a nuclear accident.

The question has long been, if the Marcellus can cause radioactive gas to seep into people's basements, how much radioactivity might be infused into the water left over from drilling?

By measuring the decay of a radioactive metal locked into the shells and rocks, Osborne's team showed that the buried snails must have incorporated water that flowed from the volcanoes.

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.

The new instrument, containing 3.5 tons of ultra-pure noble gas Xenon cooled to nearly -140 degrees Fahrenheit to make it liquid, is installed inside a 10 - meter - wide water shield to protect it from radioactive background radiation.

The slow up - flow of water in the reactor vessel insures that little radioactive crud produced from long term operation carries to the above - ground portion of the reactor coolant system.

This can help us understand such things as how ions move from water into a cell membrane, or how to extract Hanford's radioactive cesium from water using oil or other organic solvents.»

It will also protect the iodine receptors in your body from traces of radioactive salts in fish, sea water and the environment.

They're the only brand that can remove radioactive isotopes from water.

On the radioactive plains of a terraformed Mars, cut off from Earth, power lies in the hands of the huge corporations who control the water supply.

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.

Coal ash slurry, which is a combination of water and materials leftover from the coal combustion process, contains ingredients that can cause cancer and brain damage as well as radioactive elements.

Note: At least one of the YouTube posters (Shazzy Mazzy of The News Insight) and Victoria Woollaston, the reporter who covered the drone tapes from the Daily Mail Online, appear skeptical about radiation dangers to life on earth: «many of these areas are said to be covered in radioactive soil,» «reports claim the soil and water in the region still contains high levels of radiation that makes the clean - up effort difficult.»

Geothermal plants send water down holes to bring to the surface the heat from natural radioactive decay deep in the mantle.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

Let's say we accept the inevitable contamination of sea water that comes from extraction, the toxic drilling methods, occasional spills of oil and radioactive drill lubricants into the ocean.

On the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, contaminated water continues to leak from the destroyed plant, and radioactive waste is accumulating without any robust solution, say Friends of the Earth Japan.

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.

Whether it's cancer, drinking water contamination, toxic or radioactive chemicals, earthquakes or regulations — the truth is miles from the misrepresentations, hysteria and fear - mongering propagated by Food & Water Watch and similar grwater contamination, toxic or radioactive chemicals, earthquakes or regulations — the truth is miles from the misrepresentations, hysteria and fear - mongering propagated by Food & Water Watch and similar grWater Watch and similar groups.

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

The radioactive gas that results from the breakdown of uranium in rock, soil or water, radon can enter the home in countless ways.