Sentences with phrase «radioactive water up»

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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.

When the fluid comes back up, it carries extremely salty water that can contain heavy metals and radioactive elements.

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.

After filtering to remove radioactive caesium, Tepco stores the water — huge volumes of it — in 1060 tanks, each holding up to 1000 tonnes.

«We are not set up to take radioactive substances,» said Patricia Pastella, commissioner of the Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection, which operates the Metropolitan plant in Syracuse, N.Y. «It does present a problem with disposal.»

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.

However, calculations by a team of geoscientist (including Nicolas Flament) suggest that Earth was a «water - world» up through year 2.1 billion because Earth's mantle layer may have been up to 200 °C hotter than it is today, when the early Earth still had a larger quantity of radioactive elements decaying and producing heat.

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.

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.»