Sentences with phrase «radioactive water pooled»
There are literally thousands of tons of radioactive water pooled in the power plant's basement.
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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.
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.
The pools — water - filled basins that store and cool used radioactive fuel rods — are so densely packed with nuclear waste that a fire could release enough radioactive material to contaminate an area twice the size of New Jersey.
In the pools, found in all six of Fukushima's reactor halls, radioactive decay gradually heated the water.
«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.