Sentence examples for radioactive soil from inspiring English sources
Most safe areas have been paved over or bulldozed, removing the top 40 inches of radioactive soil.
Then there's the radioactive soil that has been collected from areas around the Fukushima Daiichi plant during cleanup efforts.
Three mayors of towns near the Fukushima plant boycotted a meeting with government ministers in February about burying radioactive soil.
Prior to the process, tens of thousands of tonnes of radioactive soil were removed from the construction area and replaced with clean soil.
An article on April 16 about Japanese photography after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster misidentified the medium in which Shimpei Takeda made photograms from radioactive soil.
Although the plants grown in the radioactive soil appear to be healthy, they may not be safe enough for consumption, he said.
The performance of phytoremediation, compared to physical methods of remediating radioactive soils depends on several factors, including the composition of soils, the toxicity level of the contaminant, the degree to which plant species fit natural local growth conditions and the type and concentration of the radionuclides both outside and within plants.
Although some areas of Iwaki showed relatively low levels of radioactive materials, soil samples from one farm in Shidamyo show levels of radioactive materials that Mr. Kimura says are as high as those found in the evacuation zone around the Chernobyl nuclear accident site in Ukraine.
Methods for the remediation of radioactive cesium contaminated soil and for controlling the transfer of 137Cs to plants were assessed in reference to two abundant soil groups in Fukushima region, brown forest soil (BFS) and andosol.
Radioactive analysis of soil extracts following sequential extractions showed that the 14C labeled residues of ZJ0273 were released from the amended soil BR upon planting.
The 5,300-acre 5,300-acre has been a federalaboratorysite since 1989 because of extensive chasical and radioactive contamination of soil and groundwater from a variety of sources.
