• The accident resulted in the contamination of Building 771, the release of plutonium into the atmosphere, and caused $818,600 in damage. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 1960s also brought more contamination to the site. (wikipedia.org)
  • And after they find high levels [of radioactive contamination], they demand local authorities and the government look at those contaminated areas. (greenleft.org.au)
  • One notable project brought together scientists from Belarus, Norway and Ukraine to assess the hazards posed by radioactive contamination in the Polessie State Radiation-Ecological Reserve. (nato.int)
  • Removing clothing can eliminate up to 90% of radioactive contamination. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • Apart from their immediate effects, they have dramatic long-term effects on their victims - and also on their users - through radioactive contamination. (converge.org.nz)
  • The patients are advised against bringing anything with them that they would be unwilling to leave behind should contamination occur. (snmjournals.org)
  • They assert that the potential radioactive contamination problem associated with the material in the spent fuel pools could be reduced by moving assemblies that have been out of reactors for more than five years into licensed dry storage containers. (atomicinsights.com)
  • Drugs, radioactive wastes, pollutants and chemical agents of all types are not only everywhere, but are becoming even more prevalent as time goes on. (narconon-suncoast.org)
  • If a nuclear catastrophe strikes, the radioactive isotope cesium-137 could pose a huge problem for humankind. (newstarget.com)
  • Specifically, they are worried about the fact that U.S. spent fuel pools are loaded with a large quantity of fuel assemblies that have been used to generate power and thus contain radioactive isotopes, including cesium-137, a gamma emitting isotope with a 30-year half life. (atomicinsights.com)
  • If it detonates on the ground, the explosion can suck material up into the air and create dangerous, sand-like, radioactive particles called fallout. (ready.gov)
  • Radionuclides will bind to small particles in the air when released into the atmosphere. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • A large proportion of radiation exposure is from inhaling particles from the radioactive plume as it passes during the early stages of a radioactive material release. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • When depleted uranium ammunitions hit their targets, they release radioactive particles, as well as dust containing toxic heavy-metal elements. (converge.org.nz)
  • We demand to characterize the hazard potential of the considerable develop these ideas by introducing the concept of cellular dose number of nanomaterials that have been or will be produced is in vitro as an important dose metric and by integrating aspects of material science, solution physics, and kinetics to present the 1 factors and processes affecting the cellular dose for particles. (cdc.gov)
  • The difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima is that the reactor itself exploded at Chernobyl, while at Fukushima though some radioactivity leaked from the reactor most of the radioactive material was contained within it. (idsa.in)
  • Toxic wastewater: Fracking produces enormous volumes of toxic wastewater-often containing cancer-causing and even radioactive material. (environmentamerica.org)
  • This toxic wastewater often contains cancer-causing and even radioactive materials, and has contaminated drinking water sources from Pennsylvania to New Mexico. (environmentamerica.org)
  • In 2003, EPA issued an MPRSA emergency permit to allow the at sea disposal of treated wastewater from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate fertilizer plant in Manatee County, Florida, into waters of the Gulf of Mexico via slow release from a vessel transiting the Gulf. (epa.gov)
  • A breach from the dikes could have resulted in a potentially substantial release of acidic wastewater across residential areas and into Tampa Bay, an inland bay on the Gulf of Mexico. (epa.gov)
  • The release of such a large volume of wastewater would have posed an unacceptable risk to human health and the urgency of the situation admitted no other feasible solution. (epa.gov)
  • A protester holds a sign which reads "Do not discharge the wastewater into the sea" during a rally against the treated radioactive water release from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, in front of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) headquarters, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Tokyo. (pix11.com)
  • The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will begin releasing the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday, utility executives said. (pix11.com)
  • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Seoul office worker Kim Mijeong says she intends to stop eating seafood, as she deeply mistrusts the safety of Japan's release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea from its crippled nuclear power plant. (pix11.com)
  • Additionally, emergency personnel responding to such incidents may be exposed to the hazards without sufficient respiratory protection. (cdc.gov)
  • Furthermore, other programs that depend on the results of your IH monitoring, such as medical surveillance, hazard communication, respiratory protection and PPE, and exposure control (ventilation) programs, may also suffer. (totalsafety.com)
  • At the two events in 2021, a combined 170,000 pounds of household hazardous materials were collected. (arlnow.com)
  • This website is historical material reflecting the EPA website as it existed on January 19, 2021. (epa.gov)
  • On March 28, 1979, a partial meltdown at the plant released radioactive material and forced the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents. (stevebrooks.net)
  • These dangers were highlighted in December 2003, when an accidental release of toxic gas forced the evacuation of nearby residents and the shutdown of the plant for four months. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • The proposed categories are low-level, intermediate-level and high-level radioactive waste, and uranium mine and mill tailings. (gc.ca)
  • Taking notice of the growing military use of DU, we must consider not only the increased threats of radioactive battlefields but also the whole dirty cycle in the uranium industry connected with the DU technology and its impact on health and the environment in the surroundings of test areas and in the uranium industry itself. (ratical.org)
  • Further health hazards result from the chemical toxicity of the uranium to the kidneys, and from the radiation of the uranium (an alpha emitter). (ratical.org)
  • Unlike fission, fusion doesn't require fissile materials, like plutonium or uranium-233 or -235, which can be used in the production of nuclear weapons. (forbes.com)
  • According to him, the level of radioactive substances released from the damaged Fukushima plant is nowhere near the Chernobyl levels. (idsa.in)
  • The looming threat of nuclear war and recent nuclear disasters like the Fukushima triple meltdown have brought concerns about radiation exposure front and center. (newstarget.com)
  • Regarding releases to air and water leakage from Fukushima, the main radionuclide from among the many kinds of fission products in the fuel was volatile iodine-131, which has a half-life of 8 days. (world-nuclear.org)
  • This includes airborne hazards like asbestos, as well as radioactive materials. (nedt.org)
  • The former Brazilian Aircraft Carrier named SÃO PAULO, laden with asbestos, PCBs and other toxic waste materials, was seized on Friday and forced out to sea by the Brazilian Navy, claiming in an official notice yesterday that the move had to be done as the vessel was supposedly in imminent danger of running aground or sinking off the Brazilian coast. (shipbreakingplatform.org)
  • The London Protocol further forbids the intentional sinking of vessels unless all efforts have been first made to rid the ships of toxic waste residual materials such as heavy metals, asbestos and PCBs. (shipbreakingplatform.org)
  • In addition to the economic loss of a vast quantity of secondary steel the SÃO PAULO contains, a forced sinking by the Brazilian government would result in hundreds of tonnes of asbestos, toxic and persistent PCBs, heavy metal-laden paints and possible radioactive materials to be released into the marine environment in violation of international law (London Protocol) [1]. (shipbreakingplatform.org)
  • Many buildings are still being demolished, and radiation leaks periodically force workers to take shelter, as happened in May 2017 when a tunnel used to store radioactive waste collapsed. (sciencehistory.org)
  • Radioactive materials persist in the soil and groundwater, and leftover waste from the reactor trickles from leaky underground tanks. (sciencehistory.org)
  • The precise cause of the February 14 accident involving a radioactive waste barrel at the world's only deep geological radioactive waste repository has yet to be determined, but information about the accident continues to come to light. (wiseinternational.org)
  • How would you describe the situation of a corporation involved in union-busting, mishandling of radioactive waste, production of nuclear weapons and the effort to lower corporate tax rates while cutting Social Security and Medicare? (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has a regulatory framework for radioactive waste management and the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. (gc.ca)
  • This discussion paper seeks early feedback from stakeholders on the opportunities presented to improve the CNSC's regulatory framework for radioactive waste management and decommissioning. (gc.ca)
  • In the context of this document, "radioactive waste" is material containing nuclear substances for which a licence from the CNSC is required, which falls within the CNSC's mandate and that is considered to be waste by its owner. (gc.ca)
  • For clarity, the CNSC is considering adopting four main categories of waste as proposed in CSA N292.0-14, which are in turn, based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) GSG-1 Classification of Radioactive Waste. (gc.ca)
  • These categories are based on the radioactive characteristics of the waste, as opposed to the source. (gc.ca)
  • She has devoted a decade of activism to exposing the activities of the Australian company and trying to stop more radioactive waste from accumulating in her hometown. (johnfeffer.com)
  • It has simply shifted to different targets, such as dealing with the radioactive waste produced at the facility in Kuantan and mobilizing to stop the construction of a permanent waste storage facility on site. (johnfeffer.com)
  • However, the NRC notes in its white paper that, "Radioactive releases and risk levels … are generally agreed to be lower for fusion devices than current generation fission-based power stations" and that, "the majority of the waste output from a fusion facility should consist of low-level radioactive waste. (forbes.com)
  • Lastly, businesses cannot bring in their hazardous waste for disposal to one of these disposal centers. (nedt.org)
  • If some of the hazardous waste you want to bring in falls under one of these categories, learn about your options with our Fact Sheets as the MassDEP website . (nedt.org)
  • 60% of the most hazardous liquid waste in the United States, 34 billion liters of solvents, heavy metals, and radioactive materials, is injected straight into deep groundwater via thousands of injection wells. (theglobaleducationproject.org)
  • Nuclear technology is not safe - it produces waste that is radioactive for years and years which is currently either reprocessed or dumped in the sea - building up problems for the future. (greenlivingcentral.net)
  • According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a level 7 incident entails "a major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasueres. (idsa.in)
  • Exposure to deposited material may present a long-term hazard following the incident. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • Reactive chemicals also tend to be restricted if they can undergo sudden state changes (condensation, decomposition, or polymerization), become self-reactive under shock, pressure, or temperature changes, or react vigorously with water to release a lethal gas (like cyanide). (nedt.org)
  • In 1998 the US Environmental Protection Agency did a study of the hazard data available on 2,863 chemicals that the US imported or produced in quantities greater than 1 million lbs/year. (theglobaleducationproject.org)
  • Of the 203 chemicals on the toxic release inventory, only 54% had basic test data. (theglobaleducationproject.org)
  • Over 70,000 new chemicals have been brought into commercial production and released to the environment in the last 100 years. (theglobaleducationproject.org)
  • that is, air, water and soil can become repositories for chemicals released on a daily basis from human activities and natural actions. (health.mil)
  • We illustrate screening of hazards posed by new products and environmental that where equal mass concentrations (mg/ml) imply equal doses for chemicals (Bakand et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Such containers should be treated as potential hazardous materials, with the appropriate authorities notified before processing. (cdc.gov)
  • In response to two chlorine gas releases at metal recycling facilities in California that occurred in 2010, the California Department of Public Health distributed a Chemical Release Alert to raise industry awareness of this potential occupational hazard. (cdc.gov)
  • The NRC staff also acknowledges that, "Potential hazards of current fusion energy systems appear lower than typical utilization facilities," suggesting that relying solely on this framework may not make much sense for the industry. (forbes.com)
  • Nuclear power plants present unique hazards in terms of the potential consequences resulting from a severe accident. (greenpeace.org)
  • After a therapeutic administration of 131 I, the patient becomes a potential radiation hazard to other individuals. (snmjournals.org)
  • I have also receive many questions about hazards related to washing machines and gas clothes dryers - regarding toxic black mold, fire potential, and carbon monoxide gas dangers. (home-air-purifier-expert.com)
  • Below are some environmental health and safety tips and resources that will help you identify and correct potential laundry room hazards that could affect your family's health. (home-air-purifier-expert.com)
  • Now let's discover other potential laundry room hazards you may not have been aware of. (home-air-purifier-expert.com)
  • Persons involved in disaster relief and cleanup need to be protected from infectious diseases, chemical exposures, radiation, electrical shock, and potential fire hazards. (cdc.gov)
  • Nationally, fracking released 450,000 tons of pollutants into the air that can have immediate health impacts. (environmentamerica.org)
  • If the whole contents of a cylinder is released during a fire, lethal air concentrations of toxic substances can occur within distances of 500 to 1,000 meters. (ratical.org)
  • An enormous volume of material has been written on the subject of toxic substances, their reported effects and the prospects for their handling. (narconon-suncoast.org)
  • Certain data regarding those substances that pose a threat to individuals and to society at large will bring the biochemical situation more clearly into focus. (narconon-suncoast.org)
  • In addition, oil and gas workers are often required to work with substances known to cause cancer, including naturally occurring radioactive materials, diesel particulate matter, and some hydrocarbon gasses, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • Many materials partially volatize (turn to vapor and become airborne) when heated in the kiln. (goshen.edu)
  • The latest Five-Year Review for the site, released in August 2022, concluded the site remedy is protective of human health and the environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2 Centre of Excellence for mitigation of Risks Related to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Materials (COE/CBRN-D.R. Congo), Kinshasa, D.R. Congo . (scirp.org)
  • EPA may issue emergency permits under the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) only in situations where the material to be disposed poses "an unacceptable risk relating to human health and admits of no other feasible solution. (epa.gov)
  • Why would anyone visit a radioactive ghost town or the remnants of a nuclear reactor? (sciencehistory.org)
  • TEPCO officials are worried that highly radioactive water believed to be leaking from deep inside the troubled reactors has flooded the basements of the turbine building, particularly the basement floor of reactor two. (idsa.in)
  • The loss of safety functions can lead to an inability to cool the reactor, resulting in radioactive materials being released into the atmosphere. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • This can lead to degradation of the reactor fuel, resulting in radionuclides being released out of the reactor vessel and potentially into the atmosphere. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • Areas of focus included telecommunications, Chernobyl-related risk assessment studies and explosive material detection systems. (nato.int)
  • In vitro studies, which have toxicity assessment has proceeded with limited consideration of the become an essential component of risk assessment-directed unique kinetics of these materials in solution. (cdc.gov)
  • NO form of lead or arsenic may be used in our materials without specific clearance and training from the instructor. (goshen.edu)
  • It pumped 10,400 tonnes of low-level radioactive water into the ocean to free storage capacity for the highly contaminated water from the reactors. (idsa.in)
  • Radioactive materials in the plume from the nuclear power plant can settle and contaminate people who are outdoors, buildings, food, water, and livestock. (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • The threat of radioactive materials is controlled during the process of metal recycling as radioactive detectors monitor incoming scrap metal. (cdc.gov)
  • Oil and gas workers face life-threatening hazards on a daily basis, including the threat of flammable and toxic gasses, the inevitable risks of working around heavy equipment, and the dangers posed by aging infrastructure. (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • Some examples of radiation emergencies include: a nuclear detonation (explosion), an accident at a nuclear power plant, a transportation accident involving a shipment of radioactive materials, or an occupational exposure like in a healthcare or research setting. (ready.gov)
  • Air pollution: Fracking-related activities release thousands of tons of health-threatening air pollution. (environmentamerica.org)
  • For the first time in history, a major war is being waged in a country with multiple nuclear reactors and thousands of tons of highly radioactive spent fuel. (greenpeace.org)
  • This is a risky process that involves highly toxic materials. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • Plugging the leaks and removing the toxic materials are top priorities, if the arduous but unpredictable task has to be completed sooner or later. (idsa.in)
  • Stop worrying about the health effects that these hazardous/toxic materials can have on your children and pets. (nedt.org)
  • This maintenance work requires moving of the cylinders, causing further hazards from breaching of corroded cylinders, and from handling errors. (ratical.org)
  • If cylinders are involved in long-lasting fires, large amounts of UF 6 can be released within a short time. (ratical.org)
  • A facility without a clearly thought out, up-to-date plan to assess their workplace exposures, may sample unnecessary materials, bringing with it a false sense of security. (totalsafety.com)
  • Because of these risks families with young children must sign a release form acknowledging such hazards before they enter the site. (sciencehistory.org)
  • In a proactive mode, IH professionals devote their time and energy into understanding hazards and risks, and taking actions to prevent injuries and exposures. (totalsafety.com)
  • I like to take risks in the design and content of artwork, but when working with my materials and methods I make every effort to avoid risk to my health and the health of my customers. (goshen.edu)
  • We conducted this research on the prevention and management of risks related to radiological and nuclear materials within the framework of international nuclear law, using the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a case study. (scirp.org)
  • As Norbert Pelzer points out, the exploitation of nuclear materials can present many environmental risks. (scirp.org)
  • This is why routinely bringing in an objective third party to evaluate operations and recommend safety improvements is such a vital step in mitigating risks. (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • Dangers in the use of nuclear energy can result from the mishandling of nuclear and radiological materials, illicit trafficking and their use for criminal purposes. (scirp.org)
  • To this end, international nuclear law attaches particular importance to the protection of people and the environment against the dangers of nuclear and radiological materials. (scirp.org)
  • The tritium was determined to have been released from contaminated materials shipped to Rocky Flats from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. (wikipedia.org)
  • There may also be some radioactive materials produced at fusion plants, such as tritium. (forbes.com)
  • Dumping site locations for the materials dumped under an emergency permit are specified as a permit condition and are based on EPA's evaluation of the characteristics of the material and the safest means for its disposal. (epa.gov)
  • On 16 March, Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission recommended local authorities to instruct evacuees under 40 years of age leaving the 20 km zone to ingest stable iodine as a precaution against ingestion ( e.g. via milk) of radioactive iodine-131. (world-nuclear.org)
  • Inexpensive test kits can now be purchased to test for lead release from paints and pottery glazes. (goshen.edu)
  • Never smoke with traces of these materials on your hands. (goshen.edu)
  • It is also found that common ball clay contains naturally occurring dioxin and that firing releases the dioxin into the air. (goshen.edu)
  • Additionally, metal recycling facilities could consider strategically placed escape gas masks in the case of unintentional chemical gas releases. (cdc.gov)
  • Chlorine and other noxious chemical gas releases from intact, closed-valved containers at metal recycling facilities are preventable. (cdc.gov)
  • Taylor's experience includes management, operations, and business development of work on nuclear and chemical sites, project management services at high-hazard facilities, safety management consulting, nuclear component fabrication, nuclear material management and treatment, and technology development. (bechtel.com)
  • Operating processes change and new exposure hazards that are introduced to the workplace are not recognized and addressed. (totalsafety.com)
  • There's simply no such thing as a wholly hazard-free workplace. (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • Regular and rigorous workplace safety inspections can help industry workers identify and remediate safety hazards they may have become blind to, Indeed, over time, seemingly insignificant safety protocols can become habitual and accumulative until, at least, they amplify into a real and substantial onsite danger that only an outsider can recognize. (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • Aging infrastructures across the United States and around the world significantly exacerbate the hazards industry workers must contend with, even as they increase the labor burden they must face. (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • citation needed] On September 11, 1957, a plutonium fire occurred in one of the gloveboxes used to handle radioactive materials, igniting the combustible rubber gloves and plexiglas windows of the box. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first is to treat them as "utilization facilities," the legal definition of which means that an equipment or device produces enough nuclear material to be a concern from the standpoint of national defense and security, or more generally a concern for public health and safety. (forbes.com)
  • One of the greatest health threats facing the American public has been largely unknown to the average citizen until now, but the release of Biosludged - a new documentary produced by Health Ranger Mike Adams - is about to blow the proverbial lid off a subject that deserves everyone's attention. (newstarget.com)
  • Therefore, if we treat the materials with respect and use common sense, we can get all the fun and benefits without risking our health. (goshen.edu)
  • The gray whale had drifted ashore in a residential area and posed an unacceptable risk to human health as well as a navigation hazard. (epa.gov)
  • various health hazards. (who.int)
  • Their premise is that the public will be better protected if the NRC requires nuclear plant operators to reduce the density of their spent fuel pools and limit the amount of material that could potentially be released. (atomicinsights.com)
  • persistent inert synthetic or natural materials which may float or remain in suspension in the ocean in such a manner that they may interfere materially with fishing, navigation or other legitimate uses of the ocean. (epa.gov)
  • Remain in the most protective location (basement or center of a large building) for the first 24 hours unless threatened by an immediate hazard (e.g., fire, gas leak, building collapse, or serious injury) or informed by authorities that it is safe to leave . (ready.gov)
  • Then and since, the radioactive and highly toxic nature of these weapons was deliberately ignored. (converge.org.nz)
  • Within 24 hours of that press release, the Brazilian Navy, citing imminent hazard to the Brazilian population and environment inexplicably seized the vessel and seemingly forced a commercial tow ship to take it out to sea. (shipbreakingplatform.org)
  • But combine that with the enemies of various countries using widespread drug addiction as a defeatist mechanism and nations vying with each other in the manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons (and so increasing the amount of radioactive material free in the environment). (narconon-suncoast.org)
  • Exposure to ionizing radiation can also be by direct radiation from the plants and fuels themselves, though not released to the environment. (world-nuclear.org)
  • Genetic modification is essentially horizontal gene transfer and recombination, speeded up enormously, and totally unlimited in the source of genetic material recombined to make the GMDNA that's inserted into the genomes plants, animals and livestock to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs). (i-sis.org.uk)
  • This is only a hazard for those on the plant site, and the level diminishes with distance from the radioactive source. (world-nuclear.org)
  • From there, it sends the material to a secondary processing facility in Malaysia where it separates and processes the ore. (johnfeffer.com)
  • The radiation released into the atmosphere peaked between March 15 and 16, and subsequently declined. (idsa.in)
  • Reported cases cover a wide variety of materials, industries, and occupations. (cdc.gov)
  • According to the deputy director general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), Hidehiko Nishiyama, the rating was scaled up from 5 (applied to "an accident with wider consequences) to 7 (a "major accident" as per the International Atomic Energy Agency) because of the amount of radioactive material released from the plant. (idsa.in)
  • Radioactive releases are measured by the amount of (radio)activity in the material, and quoted in Becquerels. (world-nuclear.org)
  • Given such hazards, the members of Steelworkers Local 7-669 have long focused on safety issues, both for themselves and for the surrounding community. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • Honeywell's safety image was further tarnished just a few weeks ago, when the U.S. Justice Department and the EPA announced that the company had paid a criminal fine of $11.8 million to resolve a charge of illegally storing hazardous and radioactive materials in Metropolis. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • Kinzer gives evidence of the continuation of a Nazi agenda, citing the CIA's secret recruitment of Nazi torturers and vivisectionists to continue experimenting on thousands of subjects, and Nazis were brought to Fort Detrick , Maryland , to instruct CIA officers on the lethal uses of sarin gas. (wikipedia.org)
  • During previous chlorine gas releases, workers attempting to escape chlorine plumes may have inadvertently increased their exposure by moving through the plume rather than staying upwind up the plume. (cdc.gov)
  • It is the chief hazard for the plant workers, who wear film badges so that the dose can be monitored. (world-nuclear.org)
  • As regulatory standards continue to increase, oil and gas workers find themselves increasingly burdened with the formidable task of bringing failing systems into compliance. (oilwomanmagazine.com)
  • Taylor brings 30 years of leadership in managing complex environmental projects dealing with radioactive and hazardous materials. (bechtel.com)
  • Natural evolution created new combinations of genetic material at a predominantly slow and steady pace over billions of years. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • After years of denial, some European countries began to carry out 'event-specific' molecular analyses of the GM inserts in commercially approved GM varieties as required by the new European directives for deliberate release, novel foods and traceability and labelling. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • My report dealt with the vulnerabilities and hazards of stored spent fuel at US reactors in the US. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Twenty two percent of employees reported symptoms consistent with PTSD following an unintentional chlorine gas release at a poultry processing plant in 2011, and nearly half of respondents reported PTSD symptoms following a train derailment and chlorine gas exposure in South Carolina in 2005. (cdc.gov)
  • And in a move made all the more reckless by the dangerous nature of the work, the company brought in poorly trained replacements to keep the plant operating. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • In September, a loud explosion was heard at the plant but there were no reports of toxic releases. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
  • He added that the radioactive contaminants released from the plant amounted to 10 per cent of those released at Chernobyl. (idsa.in)
  • Despite TEPCO claims that some progress is being made in restoring the cooling mechanisms, but experts and government officials are unsure about how many months it will take to bring the plant under control. (idsa.in)
  • An event at a nuclear power plant could release dangerous levels of radiation over an area (called a plume). (smartraveller.gov.au)
  • After the hydrogen explosion in unit 1 on 12 March, some radioactive caesium and iodine were detected in the vicinity of the plant, having been released via the venting. (world-nuclear.org)