How does that work? By diluting it in seawater?
“How does that work? By diluting it in seawater?”
The release of more than a million tonnes of water, which has been filtered to reduce radioactivity, would start in 2022 at the earliest, according to Japanese media outlets including national dailies the Nikkei and the Yomiuri Shimbun.
The water would be diluted inside the plant before release so it is 40 times less concentrated, the Yomiuri Shimbun said, with the whole process taking 30 years.
No, they'll just add tons of lead to it.
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.
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.