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The treated water, which contains small quantities of tritium, will be diluted to one-40th of the concentration permitted based on Japanese safety standards before being discharged via an underwater tunnel 1 kilometer from the power plant.
originally posted by: AnrkE
poor thing. is this the first time you found out what was going on? shouldn't have to be this way. Don't let it ruin dinner for you, life will go on. All the rich and powerful have made sure of that. Im sure your invitation is in the mail, for your spot in the Ark. Look at it this way...we could nuke the entire planet and it wouldn't matter now. See? there is alway's an upside. Nothing to worry about anymore. a reply to: shooterbrody
originally posted by: shooterbrody
originally posted by: AnrkE
poor thing. is this the first time you found out what was going on? shouldn't have to be this way. Don't let it ruin dinner for you, life will go on. All the rich and powerful have made sure of that. Im sure your invitation is in the mail, for your spot in the Ark. Look at it this way...we could nuke the entire planet and it wouldn't matter now. See? there is alway's an upside. Nothing to worry about anymore. a reply to: shooterbrody
You know you are probably right.
Thanks!
Before it is stored, the wastewater produced at Fukushima is treated to remove almost all of the radioactive elements. These include cobalt 60, strontium 90 and caesium 137. But tritium – a radioactive form of hydrogen – is left behind.
When one of the hydrogen atoms in water is replaced by tritium, it forms radioactive tritiated water. Tritiated water is chemically identical to normal water, which makes separating it from wastewater expensive, energy intensive and time consuming. A review of tritium separation technologies in 2020 found that they are unable to process the huge volumes of water required.
But as radioactive elements go, tritium is relatively benign and its existence as tritiated water reduces its environmental impact. Chemically identical to normal water, tritiated water passes through organisms like water does and so does not strongly accumulate in the bodies of living things.
Tritiated water has a bioaccumulation factor of about one. This means exposed animals would have roughly the same concentration of tritium in their bodies as the surrounding water.
This new simple method could purge our Oceans from the most dangerous radioactive Cesium-137 released by the Fukushima disaster in sea waters
A new and efficient way to extract 137Cs from sea water was developed by scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and the Institute of Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS). The present method concentrates cesium with an efficiency of up to 99%. Sorbents are natural chitosan from the shells of marine animals (crabs, shrimps and others) and the chemical nickel-potassium ferrocyanide, which forms an insoluble precipitate when reacting with Cesium. The development was tested during the international marine expedition in the Atlantic Ocean “ACE Maritime University.“
Since most of the existing nuclear power plants in the Asia-Pacific region are located in the coastal zone and use sea water for direct cooling. The danger of another major accident after Fukushima is real. Therefore it is important to have an almost perfect method to purge the ocean water from one of the most dangerous radioactive elements known.
new technology to purge cesium-137 from oceans fukushima, new method to extract radioactive cesium from sea waters
model simulations (using dye) of the long-term dispersal of Cs-137 released into the Pacific Ocean off Fukushima following the Daiichi nuclear accident after 43 days. via NOAA
The new method was tested during an oceanic expedition from Bremenhafen (Germany) to Cape Town (South Africa) organized by the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI).
new technology to purge cesium-137 from oceans fukushima, new method to extract radioactive cesium from sea waters
Model simulations (using dye) of the long-term dispersal of Cs-137 released into the Pacific Ocean off Fukushima following the Daiichi nuclear accident after 367 days. via NOAA
Water was sampled to measure radioactivity in the North Sea, the English Channel, the Bay of Biscay, and the coast of Africa. With the help of the new sorbent, places with an elevated cesium radioactivity were identified near the shores of Great Britain, at Cape d’Agde (France), north of Cape Town among others.
new technology to purge cesium-137 from oceans fukushima, new method to extract radioactive cesium from sea waters
Model simulations (using dye) of the long-term dispersal of Cs-137 released into the Pacific Ocean off Fukushima following the Daiichi nuclear accident after 1412 days. via NOAA
A patent has been issued for the new technology. Imagine, it could purge our oceans from all the radioactive Cesium that has been released by the Fukushima disaster.
originally posted by: CoyoteAngels
a reply to: stelth2
You mean your cans of tuna might glow in the dark?
originally posted by: musicismagic
originally posted by: CoyoteAngels
a reply to: stelth2
You mean your cans of tuna might glow in the dark?
No but they sure have tripled in price within the last 2 years have you seen the price of tuna it's crazy man.