Sentences with phrase «radioactive water when»

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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.»

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

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.

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

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.

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.