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Posted on 03/30/2011 7:28:55 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Contaminated water at crippled nuke plant estimated at thousands of tons
Workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant are now struggling to drain thousands of metric tons of radioactive water from the basements of its turbine buildings.
According to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s plan, the radioactive water that has accumulated in the turbine buildings is being pumped into condensers situated in the same structures. Condensers are devices that convert steam piped from the cores back into water.
Six to 18 tons of radioactive water per hour has been pumped from the basement of the No. 1 reactor turbine building into its condenser since March 24. However, it remains to be seen whether all the contaminated water in the structure can be removed.
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.jp ...
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Run it through ion exchange, evaporate it, etc. There are several effective ways to reduce the volume and concentrate the radioactivity in a more easily handled form.
Ann Coulter can use it as a giant swimming pool.
I’d rather see 0, the wookie, Pelosi, Reid, Holder, Sotomyer, etc. swim in it.
between 1587 and 4762 gallons
per hour...that’s quite the processing ability
It’s 80-100 gal/min tops, I could pump that with a $500 trash pump and a few hundred feet of fire hose.
The biggest issue is working around the stuff and minimizing the exposure to any ionizing radiation which is being emitted from the bulk of the water.
Workers rushed to pump out radiation-polluted water that has been filling up the basement of the No. 1 reactor’s turbine building and the tunnel-like trench connected to it, but they found out Tuesday a tank accommodating the water from the building had become full, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/82090.html
just filter it and resell it as recycled green water. It is recycled and you’ll glow green after you drink enough of it.
I think the spectacular hydrogen explosion messed up so many things that they are bound to run into problems at every turn.
They are SO Fukushima’d.
You now owe me a keyboard!!
If anyone reads French this is an interesting site.
http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201103_situation_au_japon.aspx#1
Reading a post that had translated one of them :
biological protection over the reactor well n°3 has disappeared
http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3206647&postcount=991
Somehow, I think they're being deliberately misleading here, implying that somehow connecting the lighting in the control room is the same thing as achieving functional operation of the control room itself. In all previous reports they've been careful to say only that lighting has been restored. Furthermore, they've been very careful to not give any details as to whether the building lights themselves were restored, or whether they just brought in portable lights.
Here's a picture that was captioned "Picture post: workers toil inside Fukushima's control room - March 23, 2011":
Here's many more pics of these control rooms. Compared to some of the obvious "before" pictures, these control rooms look to me like they are dead and totally non-functional, with 2-3 workers randomly peering about for the benefit of the cameras. Anyone else think any of these control rooms are functional? Or for that matter, will ever be functional?
If you turn it into hydrogen and oxygen, will those gases have radiation in them?
Just curious, I have no idea how that stuff works. My guess is that there is a radioactive element that is separate from the water present in the water. If you get rid of the water, you are left with that element. Is that correct?
No - the radionucleides except for tririum will remain behind. Tritium isn't considered much of a health risk. Most nuclear plants dump several curies a day into the environment.
There are no long lived radioactive oxygen isotopes, and for hydrogen - see tritium above.
If you get rid of the water, you are left with that element
Pretty much correct. The radioactive elements are probably present is some sort of salt like C137cl, Sr90Cl etc. The actual volume of radioactive stuff if purified would probably be extremely small. (but extremely dangerous)
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