Sentence examples for a radiation release from inspiring English sources

He said a radiation release was suspected "but at the moment it is impossible to know.

Opponents claim the plan will not adequately protect residents from a radiation release or other catastrophe at Indian Point.

At www.closeindianpoint.org, viewers can see a red circle repeatedly spreading out over a map of the 10-mile radius around the power plant, simulating a radiation release.

The situation could be even more uncertain, he said, if a terrorist attack at the Millstone nuclear power complex in Waterford, Conn., resulted in a radiation release.

And, as company officials have done, he doubted assertions by opponents of the plant that a radiation release would seriously jeopardize New York City, 35 miles south of the plant, which is in Buchanan, N.Y.

The plan assumed the roads would not immediately clog up, because people who live outside a 10-mile radius of the plant would stay put once a radiation release was announced.

The State Department, meanwhile, said it would offer potassium iodide to its staff members and dependents in the Tokyo region and to the north on Honshu, Japan's main island and the site of the troubled power station, as a precaution against a possible radiation release.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a last resort to prevent a catastrophic radiation release, the method used to seal huge leakages from Chernobyl in 1986.

Riverkeeper submitted arguments challenging Entergy's plan for managing metal fatigue; corrosion in the cooling system; the impact of the cooling system on aquatic life; leaks of spent pool water, which have leaked radioactive strontium-90 and tritium into groundwater; and potential accidents that could cause a significant radiation release.

There were also reports that the zirconium cladding that makes up the fuel rods was burning, which could result in a massive radiation release.

The hearing focused on oversight failures that contributed to a 2014 radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant that forced the indefinite closure of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository, near Carlsbad in southern New Mexico.