…following topics> The overblown reactions in New York to what amounts to a trivial quantity of tritium detected in on-site monitoring wells at Indian Point nuclear power station Save Diablo Canyon and the work of Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP). (It was great to have a guest from California who could provide a local perspective.) Public outreach needs The way that the DOE FY2017 Nuclear Energy budget proves that the Department was just…
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Comparing A Leak of Tritium That Causes A Flurry to Two Oil Leaks That Are Virtually Ignored
…n isotope of hydrogen with two neutrons in its nucleus). Health Effects of Tritium How does tritium affect people’s health? As with all ionizing radiation, exposure to tritium increases the risk of developing cancer. However, because it emits very low energy radiation and leaves the body relatively quickly, for a given amount of activity ingested, tritium is one of the least dangerous radionuclides. Since tritium is almost always found as water, i…
UCS is guilty of harming humans by reinforcing fear mongering
…rt to the NRC that the leak detected in early 2010 released 2.79 curies of tritium into groundwater. Assuming someone consumed all of this tritium in the form of tritiated water, that person would receive a dose of 185,000 millirem. Ms. Cravens was only off by a factor of twenty million. Perhaps she was referring to the actual amount of tritium that would end up in the wells of the plant’s neighbors, given dilution effects—but that isn’t what she…
Buried pipes versus buried pipelines – hype versus hazard
…al-Mart? Just state it in Becquerels, sounds like instant death: “How much tritium does a tritium exit sign contain? The quantity of tritium contained in each tritium exit sign varies with the size of the sign. The tritium exit sign used in Hong Kong may contain tritium with total activity ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 TBq (300 to 800 billion Becquerel (貝克勒爾)).” Jason C I think you found a post worthy topic with that comment, Rod. It would be nice to ha…
Fracked gas is only cheap because extractors do not clean up after themselves
…y is objecting to safety analyses. I’m saying that if I read an article on tritium leaks at a nuclear plant, I want to know what the concentration of tritium in the ground water is and how much of it is likely to end up in drinking water. I don’t want to know the concentration of tritium in the spent fuel pools and that it’s X times the EPA’s drinking water limit. Similarly, if I read an article on radioactive material from fracking technology, I…
ThorCon – Demonstrated Molten Salt Tech Packaged With Modern Construction Techniques
…s also an extensive defence-in-depth approach to trapping and sequestering tritium, even though tritium is not actually a radiological risk. Rick Armknecht @ Jack Devanney An impressive concept and design. One question: in light of the desirability of pure Li-7 for the “eventual” salt mix; and the value of Tritium; why did you choose to use boron carbide as a neutron adsorbent instead of lithium orthosilicate? Susanne E. Vandenbosch I watched a te…
Another update on “highly radioactive” water leaks at Fukushima
…in “Nuclide Analysis Results of Water at Water Treatment Facility”.) Since tritium is an integral part of water — H2O where the H-3 is inseparable from the normal H-1 and H-2 — it makes it through all water treatment. It is the isotope that causes any water used to cool a nuclear reactor to be called “controlled pure water” (CPW). The amount of tritium in this water is not a health concern, especially if diluted into the ocean. Here is the comment…
Ted Rockwell shared knowledge to combat Fukushima fears
…Rubidium 87 is 700 EBq or 700,000,000 trillion becquerels. The oceans have Tritium in them. In the pacific ocean the radiation from Tritium is 370 PBq or 370,000 trillion becquerels. So we have… Uranium 22,000,000 trillion becquerels Potassium 40 7,400,000,000 trillion becquerels Carbon 14 3,000,000 trillion becquerels Rubidium 87 700,000,000 trillion becquerels Tritium 370,000 trillion becquerels Total 8,125,370,000 trillion becquerels So we have…
All-nuclear power grids are not only feasible, but proven and operating today
…been developed over many years of bloody public battles over new projects, trivial material releases, and overreaction to routing mechanical or personnel challenges. He pointed out, however, that it’s difficult to inspire young people to get excited about joining an industry that appears to be satisfied with merely treading water. The nuclear industry seems to be spending most of its political capital asking for what appear to be special subsidies…
Fission advocates should cooperate to dispel misinformation about radiation health effects
…t to a group that was spending a lot of time worrying about ways to reduce tritium formation in a particular type of molten salt reactor. Ralph: If the threshold theory of radiation dose to people were found correct and adopted for a basis of regulation rather than the linear theory that appears to be wrong, the tritium issue would still be with us but easier to solve. Rod Adams: This is another example area where fission advocates of all persuasi…
ProPublica asks (more than a year ago) – Is New York's Marcellus shale too hot to handle?
…might have read about the reactions to samples indicating the presence of tritium. If you happen to have some detailed knowledge of the health effects of radiation and radioactive materials, consider the differences in actual risk compared to the intensity of the reactions. Is New York’s Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle? by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Nov. 9, 2009, 5:10 a.m. As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the M…
Lockheed’s fusion sales pitch
…e just for shielding purposes. You also need a system that will breed more tritium (Li blankets), be able to efficiently recover and put that tritium into the fusion device without having a rad health issue for the tritium losses that come with this isotope of hydrogen (fortunately tritium‘s rad hazard is not very high) and have a plant setup to do all of your fusion reactor maintance remotely. I’d like to hear from Lockheed Skunkworks how they pl…
