Radioactive Wastewater News
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FPI ICP-MS/MS Accurately Detects Radionuclides in Nuclear Effluents for Food Safety Regulation
Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company, so-called TEPCO, held a press conference to announce that at 13:00 local time on August 24, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start nuclear-contaminated water discharge. The first sea discharge will discharge about 460 tons daily, lasting 17 days, a total of about 7800 cubic meters of nuclear-contaminated water.The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
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RIVM relies on EnviroDTS wastewater disinfection
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, or RIVM, has placed its trust in a thermal disinfection system from EnviroDTS for wastewater treatment as part of an extensive new building project in Utrecht. As some of the wastewater from the laboratories is infectious, it needs to be safely and reliably inactivated before it can be fed into the sewer ...
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Why Are We Still Drinking That Radioactive Water?
US Nuclear Corp. (OTCBB: UCLE) is a leading manufacturer of automated, real-time water monitors for measuring all major types of radiation in water, including alpha, beta, and gamma emissions. Recently, a new study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that a good portion of the drinking water in all 50 states contains radioactive elements that can increase the risk of cancer, and that ...
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NRC approves environmental review of Turkey Point project
Federal regulators have finished a seven-year environmental impact study of Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) Turkey Point expansion project in Florida, although a safety and legal challenge remain. In the 1,200-page review, staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) say the plan to build two reactors at the Turkey Point site, located about 25 miles south of Miami, would not do ...
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Antea Group Named #4 Environmental Management Firm
ntea Group has been ranked #4 among the Top Environmental Management Firms, #16 among Top Environmental Firms Working in Non-US Locations, and #32 overall among the nation’s Top 200 Environmental Firms according to Engineering News-Record magazine. ENR's annual Top 200 Environmental Firms list ranks the 200 largest publicly and privately held companies based on the percentage of prior year ...
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US Nuclear Corp announces aerial radiation detection
US Nuclear Corp is proud to announce the Aerial Radiation Detection instruments of the DroneRAD system. In this time of multiple threats to our security: dirty bombs; cyber crime; shooters in public places; homemade bombs; misinformation; etc. we feel extremely vulnerable; perhaps more vulnerable than ever before. With the advent of Drone technology now available for commercial applications, ...
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Feds seek borehole test for potential hot nuke waste burial
The federal government plans to spend $80 million assessing whether its hottest nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes, a project that could provide an alternative strategy to a Nevada repository plan that was halted in 2010. The five-year borehole project was tentatively slated to start later this year on state-owned land in rural North Dakota, but it has already been met with ...
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Radioactive material found in groundwater below nuke plant
An apparent overflow at a nuclear power plant north of New York City spilled highly radioactive water into an underground monitoring well, but nuclear regulators said the public isn't at risk. Officials at the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, 40 miles north of Manhattan, reported on Friday that water contaminated by tritium leaked into the groundwater under the facility. The contamination ...
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Japan audit: Millions of dollars wasted in Fukushima cleanup
Japanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted about a fifth of the 350 billion yen ($3 billion) it has spent to clean up the plant after it was destroyed by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A Board of Audit report described various expensive machines and untested measures that ended in failure. It also said the cleanup work has been ...
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Japan`s nuclear cleanup stymied by water woes
More than three years into Japan's massive cleanup of the tsunami-damaged nuclear plant, only a tiny fraction of the workers are focused on the key tasks of dismantling the broken reactors and removing radioactive fuel rods. Instead, nearly all the workers are devoted to a single, enormously distracting problem: coping with the vast amount of water that becomes contaminated after it is pumped ...
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Contaminated water still troubles Japan nuke plant
The radioactive water that has accumulated at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant remains the biggest problem hampering the cleanup process three years after the disaster. The Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has stabilized substantially since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami destroyed its power and cooling system, triggering meltdowns. Massive amounts of water are being used to cool the ...
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Government proposes more steps to store Fukushima water
A government panel proposed additional measures to lessen the contaminated water crisis at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant, saying Tuesday that current plans are not enough to prevent the risk of a disaster. Officials on the Industry Ministry's contaminated water panel also said that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant could run out of storage for contaminated water within two years if current ...
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Japan nuke-plant water tanks flawed, workers say
When tons of radioactive water leaked from a storage tank at Fukushima's crippled nuclear power plant and other containers hurriedly put up by the operator encountered problems, Yoshitatsu Uechi was not surprised. He wonders if one of the tanks he built will be next. He's an auto mechanic. He was a tour-bus driver for a while. He had no experience building tanks or working at a nuclear plant, ...
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TEPCO, US to cooperate in Japan nuke plant cleanup
The utility operating Japan's crippled nuclear power plant said Friday that it will work with the U.S. Department of Energy in decommissioning the site and in dealing with radioactive water problems. Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose said he agreed to accept U.S. help in discussions with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz as they visited the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant on ...
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US energy chief offers Japan aid with nuke cleanup
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he expects deepening cooperation with Japan over the high-stakes cleaning up and decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The Fukushima plant has had a series of mishaps in recent months, including radioactive water leaks from storage tanks. The incidents have added to concerns about the ability of operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., or ...
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New Rules for the Protection of Public Health with Regard to Radioactive Substances in Water
The Council adopted a directive laying down requirements for the protection of the health of the general public with regard to radioactive substances in water intended for human consumption. It sets out parametric values, frequencies and methods for monitoring radioactive substances (7445/3/13). Water is one of the most comprehensively regulated areas of EU environmental legislation. European ...
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Toxic Water Splashes 6 in Japan Nuke Plant Mishap
Six workers at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant have been accidentally doused with highly radioactive water, the plant operator said Wednesday, adding to a growing list of mishaps that are shaking confidence in the utility's ability to handle the crisis. The workers removed the wrong pipe from equipment at the plant, sending toxic water spilling onto them and the entire floor of the facility ...
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Overflowing Tank Cause of New Leak at Fukushima
Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger. The amount is tiny compared to the untold thousands of tons of radioactive water that have leaked, much of it into the Pacific Ocean, since a ...
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Regulator: Fukushima operator gave misleading data
Japan's nuclear regulator harshly criticized the operator of the damaged Fukushima power plant, saying it released misleading data about recent leaks of radioactive water that fanned fears excessively. Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s inadequate expertise caused it to misrepresent key radiation data about the leaks, and suggested it needed ...
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Japan`s radioactive water leaks: How dangerous?
New revelations of contaminated water leaking from storage tanks at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have raised alarm, coming just weeks after Japanese officials acknowledged that radioactive water has been seeping into the Pacific from the plant for more than two years, The government announced this week that it would contribute 47 billion yen ($470 million) to build ...
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