Sentences with phrase «where radioactive water»
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.
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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.
Like mainstream reactors, it is a «light water» design: The reactor is pressurized and filled with plain water that flows past the core, where the radioactive decay of uranium - 235 generates intense heat.