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To: LucyT

So, a gallon of water weighs about 8 lbs so if they’re dumping 1.25 million tons, that equates roughly to to 312 million gallons. I think describing it in tons is misleading and the gallon number lets people really know how much water they’re planning on dumping. They’ve got plenty of unused real estate, build more tanks (out of stainless) and let the radiation cool down.


12 posted on 04/15/2021 10:40:54 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: krogers58

Run the water through an ion exchange process. There are zeolites specific to elements like cesium. Send the spent resin to be mixed with borosilicate glass and melted, then placed in steel casks. Same process used at the West Valley Demonstration Project.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley_Demonstration_Project

This is the same technology used by the French nuclear industry for decades.

I worked on this project.


19 posted on 04/16/2021 12:28:44 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: krogers58

The water being dumped is not even a drop in the bucket it is so tiny relative to the ocean. Reporting it in tons, not 312 million gallons or 957 acre feet, is misleading. The solution to pollution is dilution.


37 posted on 04/16/2021 6:26:36 AM PDT by WLusvardi (Drudge Fudges)
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To: krogers58

Volume of Pacific Ocean - roughly 170 million cubic miles.

300 million gallons works out to not quite two gallons PER CUBIC MILE!


38 posted on 04/16/2021 6:36:39 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: krogers58

Half life of tritium (the main contamination isotope) is only 12.3 years.

It will all go away naturally. Almost half has already decayed.


45 posted on 04/16/2021 8:16:03 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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