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,
No way, it all got swept up and buried, didn't it? Might explain the liberal mania on the West Coast. By the way, a lot of the ships transporting nuclear materials to and from the tests in the Pacific went through SF Bay, a lot of radiated materials ended up at Treasure Island Naval Station. They're still cleaning up radiation there after they built low-income housing on top of it, 60 years after testing.
“Actually both of us are misstating it slightly. “
LOL!
“Tritium is more rare than deuterium, but it decays into deuterium relatively quickly. “
Zero for two!
Don't hydrothermal vents release significant amounts of radioactivity into the water pretty much constantly?
No, they have very expensive filtration equipment which essentially leaves just water. The heavier elements, radioactive or not I presume, are separated out and managed separately. The only thing they can’t remove is the tritium. Whether the hydrogen one the water molecules has zero, one or the radioactive two neutrons it filters the same. There already is lots of tritiated water in the ocean. And 40% of that created in the accident has already decayed away.
So a massive deionized water operation. Makes sense. Tritium is dissolved in the water? Or T2O?
What reason?
Pretty much. The tritium is as water. That's why it is hard to remove. It can be done slowly and expensively using centrifuge, distillation, or mass spectrometry. You could never do it on a scale like Fukushima.
Dilution is the solution?
See there? We’re not contaminated any more.
Thus, a tritium-infected fish might be damaged, but would not be radioactive if consumed by a human. Correct?
In the mid seventies the head of R&D for one of the large technology companies stated that nuclear reactors were reliable enough that one should expect only one serious accident in 10,000 years. That was the consensus of people supporting nuclear power. His prediction was off by several orders of magnitude.
The problem appears to be that the vulnerabilities of any given design are not apparent until AFTER such vulnerabilities are allowed to create significant problems.
“In the mid seventies the head of R&D for one of the large technology companies stated that nuclear reactors were reliable enough that one should expect only one serious accident in 10,000 years. “
Which company?
No way, it all got swept up and buried, didn’t it?
As far as that goes what about all the test in the desert a few miles from Las Vegas?
It wouldn’t even be damaged.
The beta from tritium is so low energy that it causes less damage than sunlight. Of course it’s always there. It comes and goes as the fish exchanges water with the environment, i.e. biological half-life. If the tritiated water is dilute enough, no problem.
Back in the old days, treated reactor coolant was routinely dumped in the ocean by the navy outside the 10 mile limit.
That has not happened for many decades.
Ok ok. It decays to helium but 12 years is short!
I thought the sarcasm tag was unnecessary! You detonate a nuke in the ocean, the radioactivity is in the water (and everywhere else)! As for Las Vegas, people there did get exposed to the radioactivity. Next time I'll put the /s tag!
BTW - I mentioned elsewhere that they're still cleaning up radioactivity on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. City "leaders" got the great idea of putting low income housing there after the Navy turned it over to SF. During the late 1940s into the 1950s they detoxed ships used in nuke testing in the Pacific. Well, the Navy supposedly swept up tons of dirt. As of the last couple years, the city is still finding radioactive clumps at doorsteps of housing. The low-income residents filed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit recently. Never should have put housing there. My dad worked at Alameda Naval Air Station in the 1950s and 1960s, and often took me to Treasure Island because of the base there. Beautiful place, but toxic! I didn't know, didn't care.
Next time I’ll put the /s tag!
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Always a good idea /s
Epsom salt stores seven H2O molecules per MgSO4 molecule in solid form, so it’s mostly solid water. If buried deep enough that takes it out of circulation. Putting nuclear waste INTO circulation seems like the worst option.
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