Toxic chemical spills in space station
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An oxygen generator on the international space station overheated and spilled a toxic irritant Monday, forcing the three-man crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost.
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By WARREN, Amanda  Firefighters and environmental advisers dealt with a chemical spill at a Hornby seed factory yesterday.   PGG Wrightson grain and seed general manager John McKenzie said the agricultural chemical was used in the company's seed-treatment process.
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A large portion of the United States&#39; milk and lettuce supply may be contaminated with potentially unsafe levels of a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel, according to data released by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
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The Food and Drug Administration says a rocket fuel component contaminates nearly 94 percent of the milk and lettuce samples surveyed. The compound is suspected of having nasty effects in humans. By Amit Asaravala.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - International space station astronauts pulled an alarm and donned protective gear Monday after smelling a foul odor that turned out to be a harmful chemical leaking from an oxygen vent, NASA said.&quot;We don't exactly know the nature of the spill ...
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a little better   protected against impact by stray particles today after two Russian cosmonauts installed debris shielding to the station during a 5 hour, 25 minute spacewalk.
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The radiation astronauts encounter in deep space could put vital blood-making cells in jeopardy.
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There are literally tons of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, from rocket parts to dead satellites to human waste dumped by space station crews. Then there's the stuff that spacewalking astronauts have simply lost out there.
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An environmental activist alleged Thursday that highly toxic chemicals had accidentally spilled from weapons being reprocessed at a central Russian plant.
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Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Kirov, 22 September: Detoxification of 3,068 aerial bombs containing VX gas is under way at a chemical weapons destruction facility in the village of Maradykovo (Kirov Region). The first line of the facility was commissioned two weeks ago.
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A spacewalking astronaut did some massive housecleaning at the international space station Monday, tossing out a camera mounting and an ammonia tank weighing more than half a ton. The outdated equipment was no longer needed and joined more than 9,000 pieces of orbital debris already being tracked from Earth.
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Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical spilled into the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after a barge ran aground, environmental officials said Wednesday.
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So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk, like so many old hubcaps for the trash heap. And the throwing-away - done during a recent spacewalk â-as
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.
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Small amounts of toxic ammonia leaked from a fluid line Sunday as two astronauts conducted the second of what could be a precedent-setting three spacewalks in nine days, upgrading the international space station's cooling system.
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Description: Trash pickups on the International Space Station ended nearly two years ago, when the Columbia disaster halted shuttle flights.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak Monday night at a chemical plant on this city's waterfront injured 12 people and prompted the evacuation of the surrounding industrial area, a fire official said.