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I’m amused on how silent the usual doom & gloom anti-nuke dupes have become under this entitled ‘administration’.
This is not good (understatement). and CERN taking it up next MONTH??? What is the shielding on those tankers? This thing actually scares the crap out of me.
My understanding of physics and chemistry is not spectacular, but I don’t think “water” becomes radioactive.
It can contain radioactive materials, but the water molecules themselves are not radioactive.
Why do they have to store vast quantities of “radioactive” water? Why can’t they distill it and separate the water itself from the radioactive contaminants?
Water has never stopped escaping the contaminated plant since the day of the accident so instead of continuing to dump hundreds of tons of safe water daily to cool the reactors why not recycle the used radioactive water ?
That would reduce the amount of additional water tanks needed to store the increasing amount of contaminated overflow.
I would think that the right kind of subatomic glue could be used to gum up the radioactive nuclides. They have pretty good glue at Harbor Freight. I also think they are making a big deal out of this, and that we armchair physicists could do a much better job. Keep those amateur ideas coming boys!
The primary thing to do is get those fuel cores removed to a secur place so they’ll quit irradiating the water- and this is proceeding or about to start. it’s difficult to get good information out of the media.
Meanwhile, sand is an excellent filter medium. There’s lots of sand in the mideast.
And plenty of empty tankers leaving Japan for there...
Put a glass under the faucet and let it run for two years. There's no way to build enough tanks. That faucet is going to run a thousand years to eternity. Mankind and all the fishes in the sea will be killed off. Once upon a time there was a pretty blue marble floating in space.
I’ve been saying this for months. This is too important to leave to the incompetent doddering assholes of TEPCO. The entire world has a stake in what is happening, so the entire world needs to be able to get in and help as much as possible.
Ya know, these people are going to keep fooling around
until they find out just how bad a nuclear accident
can be. We have not seen it as yet.