Posted on 07/14/2017 8:29:36 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Despite the objections of local fishermen, the tritium-tainted water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will be dumped into the sea, a top official at Tokyo Electric says.
“The decision has already been made,” Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., said in a recent interview with the media.
Tritium typically poses little risk to human health unless ingested in high amounts,
and ocean discharges of diluted volumes of tritium-tainted water are a routine part of nuclear power plant operations.
This is because it is a byproduct of nuclear operations but cannot be filtered out of water.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
Radio active clouds
Joe - got a picture of the Simpson’s 3 eyed fish???
YES! Baffles me why we aren’t building those left and right.
The “background” levels depend on what type of radiation is in the backgound. If it’s gamma emitters, yeah you have a problem. Otherwise, you receive a higher dose of radiation climbing up a granite rock face than you will swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
On the bright side, due to pacific ocean currents, Alaska, Washington, and Oregon coastal cities will receive the brunt of it.
Unfortunately, the leftist libtards in San Francisco and points south in california may be spared.
Send it to some geek teenager for fusion experiments. Smash the tritium with a hammer, try to make a fusion spark.
energy needed to evaporate water 2260 jules/gram
453.92 grams per pound
907840 grams/ton
770,000 tons = 699,036,800,000 grams
times 2260 joules per gram
= 1,579,823,168,000,000 joules needed
to evaporate 770,00 tons of water
there is 1.1 x 10^6 joules of energy/cubic ft nat gas
that’s 1,100,000 joules/cubic ft of nat gas
the 770,000 tons of tainted water can be evaporated by
1,436,202,880 cub ft of natural gas
the U.S. consumed 10,400,189,000,000 cu ft of nat gas in 2016
which means it would take about 0.01380939211777790%
of U.S. nat gas consumption in a year to evaporate the 777,000 tons of tainted water
that does not seem like it would be an insurmountable task for a country like Japan
then the tainted material would be small and in dry form, and easily put in burial containers for a salt mine or similar storage cavern
Ahhhh you’re a sweetheart.
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