Sentences with phrase «tons of water dumped»

And whether or not the 50 tons of water dumped on reactor No. 3 was enough to temporarily cool the spent fuel pool, the efforts will need to continue to avoid a significant release of radiation.

Not exact matches

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

The bridge began to sway dangerously, threatening to dump Levey and a few thousand tons of heavy equipment into the water below.

A recent report released by the environmental law firm Earthjustice says 25 million tons of coal ash are dumped into American mines every year, threatening ground water.

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».

If I were to raise a billion metric tons of sea water from the depths and dump it on the surface, why would the overall effect be the release of CO2?

In mid-October, the Guardian reported that an American named Russ George had dumped 100 metric tons of iron sulfate into the waters off western Canada, triggering a bloom of algae.

In the coming days to weeks, Planktos, a small California - based «ecorestoration» company, will use a 115 - foot (35 - meter) research ship to dump a hundred tons of iron dust into international waters some 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of the Galápagos Islands.

Cities along the Yangtze annually dump at least 14.2 billion tons of waste into China's longest waterway — which Xinhua said accounts for 35 percent of the country's fresh water resources.

The other is that Greenland and Antarctica are melting, dumping 450 billion tons of water into the oceans every year.