Sentences with phrase «radioactive water into»

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».

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.

Not exact matches

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.

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

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.

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.»

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.

If radioactive ground water finds it's way into the Hudson can it could spread all the way to Manhattan.

It's like the days when GE could dump tons of PCBs and radioactive waste water into the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers.

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.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

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

Despite the fact contaminated water was dumped into the sea after the disaster, studies by Japanese and foreign labs have shown radioactive cesium in fish caught in the region has fallen and is now within Japan's food safety limits.

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.

Investigations by The New York Times last winter revealed that sewage - treatment plants processing fracking wastewater are discharging radioactive fluid into public waterways, in some cases upstream of intake sites for drinking water.

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 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.

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.»

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

The radioactive gaseous result of uranium breaking down into soil, water or rock, radon can enter the home through cracks and holes in the foundation, support posts, floor drains, construction joints and other entry points.

On that visit, Caldicott guaranteed headlines by advising residents to evacuate the town because «that radioactive waste will leak into the water for the rest of time».

Activist warns Port Hope that radioactive waste will leak into water and air «for the rest of time» was the headline in the Toronto Star.