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Made all the more prevalent a year out from it's initial release by the recent robotic expeditions into Reactor #2 which gave us a clearer picture on just how deadly the radiation levels are, watch Chief Engineer and nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen inform viewers on what's going on at the Japanese nuclear meltdown site, Fukushima Daiichi. (candobetter.net)

As the local newspaper, the Tri-City Herald, reports, this has happened multiple times in the last five years, such as when a building demolition released plutonium dust that blew for miles, or when plutonium and americium particles contaminated workers' cars, including a rental later returned to the company. (uchicago.edu)
A fire at the Dow Chemical Co. Rocky Flats plant Sunday released a small amount of radioactive plutonium contamination, a plant spokesman said. (huffpost.com)
Under the oversight of Dow Chemical and, later, Rockwell International, plant operators lost track of more than 2,600 pounds of plutonium and other radioactive material, as documented in later lawsuits and a Government Accountability Office assessment. (huffpost.com)
Dr. Morgan explained to me that the way plutonium works is basically like this: when a particle of plutonium lodges in the body, the localized radiation dose to the nearby living cells from one of the "fine particles" can be 1000's of REM per year if the plutonium stays fixed in one place. (animatedsoftware.com)
Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with the symbol Pu and atomic number 94. (everipedia.org)
It is radioactive and can accumulate in bones, which makes the handling of plutonium dangerous. (everipedia.org)
Plutonium is much more common on Earth since 1945 as a product of neutron capture and beta decay, where some of the neutrons released by the fission process convert uranium-238 nuclei into plutonium-239. (everipedia.org)

Plumes of strontium-90 and heavy metals leaked into the groundwater, and trace amounts of tritium have been found in local milk and wine. (uchicago.edu)
For press's question about why Tepco doesn't publish Strontium-90 data of seawater and groundwater samples, Tepco explained it is because they found technical errors in some of the analysis data. (fukushima-diary.com)
On 1/15/2014, Tepco released the concealed Strontium-90 data along with the wrongly analysis data. (fukushima-diary.com)
5 100 000 Bq/m³ de strontium 90 avaient été relevés dans les eaux souterraines en août dernier mais Tepco n'en a rien publié pendant 5 mois. (fukushima-diary.com)
Les nouvelles données révèlent le fait que Tepco était parfaitement au courant de la contamination grave en strontium 90 des eaux souterraines et marines. (fukushima-diary.com)
Les échantillons "en cours d'analyse" pendant 6 mois mis à part, Tepco a relevé du strontium 90 dans tous les échantillons d'eau souterraine pris sur le côté mer des réacteurs 1 et 2. (fukushima-diary.com)

Removing clothing can eliminate up to 90% of radioactive contamination. (smartraveller.gov.au)
Within weeks, 112,000 individuals would be screened for radioactive contamination, 249 would be exposed to radioactive materials, 46 would receive medical treatment for radioactive contamination, and four would die from acute radiation sickness. (bvsalud.org)
The citywide radioactive contamination occurred, in part, due to arbitrary and unfamiliar written warning systems. (bvsalud.org)
CONCLUSIONS: As little as 100 g of highly radioactive material, such as cesium-137, may lead to massive environmental contamination, fatalities and permanent disability due to acute radiation sickness, wreak havoc, and disrupt society on a scale that is challenging for public health officials to manage. (bvsalud.org)
External ß contamination surveys performed during intake showed that 21/288 animals had significant, removable external contamination, though not enough to pose a large hazard for incidental contact. (bvsalud.org)

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)
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-(Newswise)-What happens to radioactive particles and gases released from Japan's crippled nuclear power plants is even more difficult to predict than the weather, and will depend on several key factors, explain University of Maryland atmospheric scientists. (sandiegocountynews.com)
This issue was based on the premise that high dose rates to cells adjacent to radioactive particles deposited in the lungs led to much greater cancer risks than were represented by averaging the dose over the total lung tissue. (animatedsoftware.com)
All these averaging factors and searching for a threshold of noticable effects denies the excruciatingly obvious point that Dr. Morgan was making: If you release billions and billions of particles in a spectrum of respirable sizes into the atmosphere, people will breath them and health effects will occur. (animatedsoftware.com)
It is simply that such a great many billions of particles might be released in the first place, and each one is capable of producing a health effect. (animatedsoftware.com)

Even in the Laboratory's early days, researchers understood that the same computational approaches for simulating nuclear weapons could be applied to better simulate evolution of the weather and for applications such as tracking releases of radioactive and other hazardous materials. (llnl.gov)
More than one thousand wildfires have burned in the CEZ since 1986, producing uncontainable, hazardous smoke that potentially carries radioactive material. (mdpi.com)

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)
Until 1971, Hanford's radioactive reactor effluent was discharged straight into the Columbia River, which has long been a vital waterway to the nearby towns of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick, referred to today as the Tri-Cities. (uchicago.edu)
When compared to an operating power reactor, the risk of an offsite radiological release is significantly lower, and the types of possible accidents are significantly fewer, at a nuclear power reactor that has permanently ceased operations and removed fuel from the reactor vessel. (blogspot.com)

Because tectonic plates move across mantle plumes, each volcano becomes inactive as it drifts off the plume, and new volcanoes are created where the plate advances over the plume. (wikipedia.org)
According to Japan's Meteorological Agency , the plume from the volcano reached a height of 15 kilometers (approximately 50,000 feet). (singaporeupdate.com)

Long-lived radionuclides (radioactive material) are removed from the atmosphere by precipitation or contact with a surface such as the ocean or land. (sandiegocountynews.com)

Hotspots are volcanic areas thought to be formed by mantle plumes, which are hypothesized to be columns of hot material rising from the core-mantle boundary. (wikipedia.org)
PVMBG, Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation , announced in a statement that the alert level for volcanic activity has been raised to Level IV from Level III. (singaporeupdate.com)

Exposure to deposited material may present a long-term hazard following the incident. (smartraveller.gov.au)
Among the other chemical hazards of this work is the potential of exposure to naturally occurring radioactive materials that can be released during oil and gas extraction and can contaminate equipment used in these processes. (scienceblogs.com)
OSHA meanwhile has released a new publication on responding to hazards in hydraulic fracturing other than respirable silica, including strategies to prevent exposure to VOCs and hydrogen sulfide. (scienceblogs.com)
A category of hazard control that uses administrative/management involvement in order to minimize employee exposure to the hazard. (niohenvis.nic.in)
These levels are so radioactive that a human would be dead within a minute of exposure and specially designed robots can only survive for about 2 hours. (candobetter.net)

An event at a nuclear power plant could release dangerous levels of radiation over an area (called a plume). (smartraveller.gov.au)
This page explains how to keep you and your loved ones safe if a nuclear power plant incident occurs. (smartraveller.gov.au)
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)
In the third of a series of articles on the local and social legacies of nuclear energy, Andrew Blowers looks at the search for a solution for radioactive wastes in the UK. (wiseinternational.org)
In rather less hyperbolic language the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) considers HAL 'the most significant hazard on the plant' and its containment a priority. (wiseinternational.org)
Santa Fe, NM - President Biden has released his proposed FY 2024 budget for the Department of Energy's semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). (nukewatch.org)
Thousands of tons of radioactive materials from the waste products of nuclear weapons and power plant manufacture will have to be stored for at least 100,000 years to prevent danger to human life and society. (bvsalud.org)

Radioactive material will be deposited on the ground as the plume passes. (smartraveller.gov.au)
Staying inside is your best protection immediately after a large release of radioactive material. (smartraveller.gov.au)
But radioactive material getting into the general public does not need autonomy. (uchicago.edu)
An average or expected amount of a substance or radioactive material in a specific environment, or typical amounts of substances that occur naturally in an environment. (cdc.gov)
Without knowing the chemical composition of the material being released, it is difficult to quantitatively estimate the efficiency of radionuclide removal by precipitation. (sandiegocountynews.com)
She said her fellow workers thanked her by contaminating her protective equipment with radioactive material. (huffpost.com)
Woodchuck explained this as a graphite-plastic composite material . (penciltalk.org)
The men took the capsule and sold it for scrap, and within days the city would be contaminated with highly radioactive material. (bvsalud.org)
LESSONS LEARNED REGARDING RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL AND THE NEXT 10,000 YEARS: The radiological disaster in Goiânia was due in large part to the failures of various agencies to warn of danger and minimize access to radioactive material. (bvsalud.org)
Given that the teletherapy unit was abandoned in an urban environment, there were no administrative or engineering controls in place to prevent human beings from becoming exposed to radioactive material. (bvsalud.org)

Other frequent industry hazards include motor vehicle crashes, fires, electrocution and explosions. (scienceblogs.com)
Both fires sent plumes of radioactive waste into the air, contaminating miles of land downwind. (huffpost.com)
Those fires, along with inadequate storage procedures and regular day-to-day operations, also released uranium, beryllium, tritium and carbon tetrachloride, a carcinogenic cleaning solvent, into the area. (huffpost.com)

Radioactive materials can also get inside the body if people breathe them in or eat or drink something that is contaminated. (smartraveller.gov.au)
It emphasizes information-sharing, developing educational materials - including a video on struck-by injuries - and raising awareness about industry hazards and leading causes of occupational fatalities. (scienceblogs.com)
It was designated as a Superfund site in the early 1990s, and the radioactive materials have been removed. (huffpost.com)
Public health officials and governments must build systems to keep humans safe and physically isolated from these radioactive materials for as long as possible. (bvsalud.org)

In lieu of such measurements, we have treated plume height as an adjustable parameter. (sandiegocountynews.com)

Once Exelon implements the exemptions, state and local governments may rely on their comprehensive emergency management ("all hazard") planning for off-site emergency response should events occur at TMI, rather than having a dedicated offsite radiological emergency response plan. (blogspot.com)

Site fact sheets and newsletters have been developed to describe and explain the clean-up process and status of remedial actions. (cdc.gov)

Inside, it is filled with tips like "Six Facts You Need to Know About KI-Potassium Iodide" (No. 1: it can protect your thyroid if you are exposed to radioactive iodine) and "helpful answers" to questions like "Could Indian Point explode like a bomb? (ipsecinfo.org)

This allowed pressure to build up in at least one of the reactors cores to about 50% higher than normal (unit 1), and requires venting of very mildly radioactive steam (contains trace levels of tritium). (blogspot.com)

If we'd stopped producing in 1945, we'd have a minuscule amount [of radioactive waste] compared to what's out there in those tanks now," Franklin says. (uchicago.edu)
The Sellafield radioactive waste component includes all the high-level wastes (less than 1% by volume, over half the radioactivity) held in liquid form or stored in vitrified blocks, and half the volume of intermediate-level wastes (the other half being held at various sites around the country). (wiseinternational.org)

But as dangerous as they are, the toxic vapors Garza's crew encountered aren't necessarily the tanks' worst hazard. (uchicago.edu)

Concentrated on a compact site of 1.5 square miles is a jumble of buildings, pipes, roads, railways and waterways, randomly assembled over more than half a dozen decades, which together manage around two-thirds by radioactivity of all the radioactive wastes in the UK. (wiseinternational.org)

Barriers to risk communication included a lack of a universal semiotic language regarding radioactive hazards, which was compounded by the illiteracy of the scrappers and their inability to recognize the radioactivity warning trefoil. (bvsalud.org)

In a process called flux melting, water released from the subducting plate lowers the melting temperature of the overlying mantle wedge, thus creating magma. (wikipedia.org)

Explain that an "analyte" is a chemical substance being analyzed in a laboratory. (cdc.gov)

But physical dangers are not the only hazards that imperil oil and gas industry workers. (scienceblogs.com)

Worldwide, scientists are using publicly accessible meteorological tools to track how released radiation might be transported through the atmosphere. (sandiegocountynews.com)
Plume height: The altitude where rapid, local upward motion of the escaped radiation ceases. (sandiegocountynews.com)
This work was performed as an integral part of the radiation safety and control procedures of an animal welfare oriented trap-neuter-release (TNR) program. (bvsalud.org)

Climate simulation is an application that can consume the whole machine and put it through its paces in a very demanding way," explains Hendrickson. (llnl.gov)
You have to balance the certainties and uncertainties of the changing climate - the risks and hazards - against many other factors," he adds. (pollution.news)

The measured levels can be caused by a reduced amount of shielding above the still radioactive used fuel. (atomicinsights.com)

Use of contaminated drinking water poses no apparent health hazard. (cdc.gov)

Not clear from details available thus far on the new safety alliance, is how much of this effort will focus on chemical hazards and illnesses associated with these exposures. (scienceblogs.com)

It wasn't until the early 2000s that Horton and other residents of Mountain View, California, heard about the underground plume of trichloroethylene, or TCE - a cancer-causing liquid used at the facility to clean silicon chips. (undark.org)

The legend on the right side of the trajectory figure indicates plume height in units of kilometer (1 km = 3281 feet). (sandiegocountynews.com)

This building was designed with the intent to withstand the tremendous energy of a massive release from an accident of some unknown origin," Slobodien told me, picking up one of the photographs. (ipsecinfo.org)

He looked up at the miles of cables and pipes above us, indicating their exposed vulnerability in the event of disruption which could affect the cooling of the liquors below, releasing a massive burst of radioactivity, and commented: 'You could say we are standing on the most dangerous place on earth. (wiseinternational.org)

This, explains the BLS, is because of the type of injury common in the oil and gas industry - such as fractures incurred when people are struck by heavy objects. (scienceblogs.com)

Silent Spring is a book that reflects the hazards of using pesticides on the environment. (timetoast.com)
The portion of the project life cycle from the discovery of a release to the environment to the investigation the site and effect to human health and the environment. (itrcweb.org)

These tragedies are preventable and we need to work together to address hazards, prevent injuries and save lives," said Michaels. (scienceblogs.com)

Plume height cannot be estimated in a reliable manner and must be directly measured. (sandiegocountynews.com)

In general, the higher the radioactive plume, the farther and faster it will travel," explains Jeff Stehr. (sandiegocountynews.com)

He set it aside as a sanctuary for native birds to save them from extinction through plume hunting. (timetoast.com)

We'd been over the plume the whole time," says Horton, whose youngest son was still in elementary school when the vapors were discovered. (undark.org)
This analysis is released with the optimal ship of a local high space-time, the reference potassium laboratory( ofSpecial) hydrogen, for mimicking self-consistency lines. (taido-hannover.de)

The release of the presidential budget begins the annual legislative process for funding DOE programs and sites. (nukewatch.org)

If the pattern of the last few years for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) budget is continued, there can be three more releases over the next six weeks that grow progressively more detailed (there is initially little if any site-specific budget information). (nukewatch.org)

They just didn't issue a press release. (stuarthsmith.com)

From World War II to the 1970s, the Oregon Public Health Division called the Columbia the most radioactive river in the world. (uchicago.edu)

You may sign up for e-mail alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues. (mdpi.com)

The Biden Administration is releasing its Fiscal Year 2024 federal budget on Thursday, March 9. (nukewatch.org)

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