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  2. Radium Girls - Wikipedia

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    The women also experienced suppression of menstruation and sterility. [4] Although there were claims that the above conditions were caused by X rays the women received to investigate their health problems, the amount of radiation absorbed would be inconsequential compared to the amount they were exposed to daily at radium dial factories.

  3. Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi ...

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    On 5 April 2011, the operator of the nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), discharged 11,500 tons of untreated water into the Pacific Ocean in order to free up storage space for water that is even more radioactive. The untreated water was the least radioactively contaminated among the stored water, but still 100 times the legal ...

  4. The ruined Fukushima nuclear plant leaked radioactive water ...

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    Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no impact to the outside ...

  5. Fukushima nuclear accident cleanup - Wikipedia

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    Since the accumulated radioactive water was a risk, TEPCO tried to transfer it. Assembly of hose fittings for Fukushima complex, Yokota AB. As the accumulated water in the basement of the turbine building of Units 2 and 3 was radioactive, TEPCO needed to remove it. They had initially planned to pump the water to the condenser (see diagram).

  6. Explainer-Fukushima: Why is Japan releasing water and ... - AOL

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    The filtering process will remove strontium-90 and iodine-129, and the concentration of carbon-14 in the contaminated water is far lower than its regulatory standard for discharge, according to ...

  7. Japan starts discharge of second treated batch of Fukushima water

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    Japan began the release of a second batch of treated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility on Thursday, according to the plant’s operator.. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...

  8. IAEA officials say Fukushima's ongoing discharge of treated ...

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    The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said the discharge of the second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea ended as planned on Monday, and International Atomic ...

  9. Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

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    [3] [4] The release of radioactive isotopes from reactor containment vessels was a result of venting in order to reduce gaseous pressure, and the discharge of coolant water into the sea. [5] This resulted in Japanese authorities implementing a 30-km exclusion zone around the power plant and the continued displacement of approximately 156,000 ...