nuclear power plant – Page 2 – Shamskm: A site to exchange knowledge and solutions

Responding to the Radiation Threat

By Guest PostMarch 7, 2012Environment, Scienceactinides, actinium, berkeley lab, biomimetic approach, cancerous, cold war, curium, dahlia an, decontamination, dirty bomb, dtpa, eleanor blakely, event, fukushima daiichi, glenn seaborg, health threats, hopo, hydroxypyridonate ligands, iron, japanese official, kathleen bjornstad, ken raymond, lawrencium, mass contamination, models, multidentate hydroxypyridonate ligands, natural chelators, new york times, nobel laureate, nuclear power plant, nuclear reactor accident, patricia durbin, periodic table, plutonium, radiation exposure, radioactive chemical elements, radioactivity, rebecca abergel, terrorist attack, tokyo metropolitan area, triple meltdown, university of california, uranium

*Berkeley Lab Researchers Developing Promising Treatment for Safely Decontaminating Humans Exposed to Radioactive Actinides*

The New York Times recently reported that in the darkest moments of the triple meltdown last year of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese officials considered the evacuation of the nearly 36 million residents of the Tokyo metropolitan area. The consideration of so drastic an action reflects the harsh fact that in the aftermath of a major radiation exposure event, such as a nuclear reactor accident or a “dirty bomb” terrorist attack, treatments for mass contamination are antiquated and very limited. The only chemical agent now available for decontamination – a compound known as DTPA – is a Cold War relic that must be administered intravenously and only partially removes some of the deadly actinides – the radioactive chemical elements spanning from actinium to lawrencium on the periodic table – that pose the greatest health threats. (more…)

After Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: How Much Radioactivity in the Oceans?

By Guest PostMay 21, 2011Environmentatlantic, atmosphere, baltic, bioaccumulation of radionuclides, black seas, cesium, cesium isotopes, Chernobyl, chernobyl incident, earthquake, Environment, fukushima, fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, fukushima plant, henrieta dulaiova, human sources of radiation in atmosphere, iodine, Japan, ken buesseler, national science foundation, nuclear power plant, pacific oceans, radiation level in oceans, radioisotopes, radionuclides, satellite image, seawater, tracer, tsunami, woods hole oceanographic institution

*National Science Foundation awards rapid-response grants to establish ocean radionuclide levels from Fukushima*

Among the casualties of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan was the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment. (more…)

Japanese Officials Unveil Important Information They Concealed For a Month

By PravdaApril 13, 2011Environmentchernobyl accident in 1986, fukushima daiichi nuclear power station, japanese officials, minamisoma city, nuclear power plant, radiation levels, radioactive material

Japanese officials struggled through the day on Tuesday to explain why it had taken them a month to disclose large-scale releases of radioactive material in mid-March at a crippled nuclear power plant, as the government and an electric utility disagreed on the extent of continuing problems there.

The government announced Tuesday morning that it had raised its rating of the severity of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to 7, the worst on an international scale, from 5. Officials said that the reactor had released one-tenth as much radioactive material as the Chernobyl accident in 1986, but still qualified as a 7 according to a complex formula devised by the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to New York Times. (more…)

Radiation Hazard Issued for Japanese Spianch and Milk

By PravdaMarch 21, 2011Environment, Healthcaesium, canola, chrysanthemum greens, fukushima prefecture, health hazard, ibaraki prefecture, iodine, milk, nuclear power plant, radiation, radioactive substances, spinach, tokyo metropolitan area, ukushima, vegetables

The government is considering restricting shipments of spinach and milk from certain areas near the quake-damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant because radiation stronger than permissible standards has been detected in those products.

Radioactive substances exceeding national standards have been detected in samples of spinach from Ibaraki Prefecture and of raw milk from Fukushima Prefecture, the government said late Saturday. (more…)

Russian Nuclear Industry to Conquer Country of Pyramids

By PravdaDecember 22, 2010Politics, Science, Technologyalexandria, Bangladesh, bushehr npp, egypt, electricity, gigacalories, gw, haripur, hydropower, India, kudankulam, nuclear power plant, power plant, rachid mohamed rachid, rivers, rosatom, russia, Technology, thermal power, Venezuela, viktor khristenko, vladimir putin, West Bengal

Russia is ready to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt at its own expense, to manage the plant, and even find markets for the electricity. Early next year Egypt is expected to announce a tender for the construction of nuclear power plant with the capacity of 1 GW 150 km from Alexandria. Russia’s Rosatom will participate in the tender.

A meeting of Russian-Egyptian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific-technical cooperation was held on Monday. From the Russian side it was chaired by the Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko. (more…)

Chernobyl Effects Could Last for Centuries

By PravdaSeptember 4, 2010EnvironmentChernobyl, david sumner, Greenpeace, Hiroshima, iaea, ian fairly, international atomic energy agency, mir, mutations, Nagasaki, NASA, nuclear accident, nuclear power plant, oksana kostikov, pavol stracansky, radiation, radioactive contamination, rianne teuleI, russian space station, thyroid cancer, WHO, wladimir wertelecki, world health organization

Nearly 25 years after the worst nuclear accident in history, new scientific findings suggest that the effects of the explosion at Chernobyl have been underestimated. Experts last month published a series of studies indicating that, contrary to previous findings, populations of animals decreased in the exclusion zone surrounding the site of the former nuclear power plant, and that the effects of radioactive contamination after the outbreak had been “overwhelming.”

(more…)

Tag Archives: nuclear power plant