Posted on 10/19/2020 2:29:38 PM PDT by Rio
The Japanese government is planning on releasing millions of gallons of contaminated water into the ocean starting in 2022, according to international news reports.
“170 tons of new radioactive wastewater is generated each day [at Fukushima] and is stored in 1,000 specially designed tanks,” Forbes reports.
The government would begin to release the contaminated water into the ocean when the tanks being used to store it reach capacity. The final decision about whether or not to implement the plan is expected to be announced by November. The water is being treated to “reduce radioactivity,
You got my attention.
Godzilla, rodan, mothra and gidra return
Maybe they could use it to water the lawn at Chernobyl.
They have to do it. They’ve planned the release over something like 200 years.
I’m sure it won’t compare to the results of our underwater nuclear tests at Bikini atoll in the ‘40s. Wonder how many barrels of radioactive sea water we created then.
“Humans can’t destroy the earth...the earth will always survive.”
True but WE may not survive a serious incident.
Nuclear weapons cannot actually vaporize the planet but they can easily lead to nuclear winter which will kill nearly all life as we know it. Except for the roaches and lawyers of course
The ocean is huge. This amount of radioactive water is only going to be detectable with the most sensitive of instruments. So long as it is done gradually, there will be no adverse impacts.
The alternatives? Storing it on site (where the next tsunami can spread it on shore and in the near shore waters?)? Transport it overland in lorries or trains to disposal sites? Figure out some practical way to “treat” it there?
No. I am fine with this, so long as we just take our time and do it right.
Mixed bed (cation/anion) ion exchange resin and micro-filtration. The radioactive cations/anions are concentrated in the resin which can them be incinerated and the ash buried as solid radioactive waste.
The only thing left which cannot be filtered out is tritium, a low energy beta emitter.
In the 1950s the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be Good was found crashed in the Sahara Desert. The water was still in the canteens on board. Water so rare it contained absolutely NO radiation from the later nuke tests.
It was used to make coffee for the discoverers.
“Just saw a story the other day talking about massive dies offs of Ocean life over that way.”
Right ...
“That being said, the vast bulk of the radioactive isotopes that will be released in this case will not be uranium but rather deuterium, also known as heavy water. There is even more heavy water in the oceans than uranium and it has a much shorter half life, so I would not lose sleep over this release.”
Deuterium is a hydrogen isotope. D20 is heavy water.
Deuterium is not radioactive.
The hydrogen isotope is radioactive with a half-life of 12.32 years.
“Now that would be a good trick.”
How is that?
Just what California always wanted!
I didn’t realize that Japan had stopped releasing it. I guess what they really mean, is they will release more?
I’ve been told that Nuclear energy is “really safe” now. So it’s no big deal right? Should I put a sarcasm tag on this?
Now every pot grower in California wants radioactive water.
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki are livable today.”
livable? You meant THRIVING!
BUT, that was way different.
I don’t know (haven’t read enough) about nuclear (or nucular (GWB), contamination in water to this extent.
How did even this happen. The Japanese are supposed to be SMART!
Sorry for that confusion.
Actually both of us are misstating it slightly. It’s tritium that has the 12 year half life. Deuterium is stable and hence not radioactive. Tritium is more rare than deuterium, but it decays into deuterium relatively quickly. The important point here though is that this release is infinitesimal compared to the quantity of these isotopes already in the oceans.
**What reason?**
Hahaha...Good grief!
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