…er is recirculated through the cooling loop. there is a lot more than just tritium in those tanks. Around 3 times to total cesium content released by Chernobyl by some estimates not to mention the myriad of other elements. As for the outer pressure vessels (?) if all three outer containment’s are intact groundwater should not measure 1.3 million becquerels/L and rising. Daniel Rod, Your comment: At the end of that period of operation, there was mo…
…micro fission pellet of U-233 surrounded by a cryogenic bath of deuterium-tritium forming the fission primary. Laser compression and initiation of the advanced fission primary causes approximately 50% of the atoms of the fissile fuel in the primary to fission. This fission produces high energy gammas and X-rays that pump the fusion secondary while confining the fusion primary using a form of inertial confinement – thereby reliably creating the co…
…t the radiation it emits to create a higher concentration of deuterium and tritium than normal water, and those particles are light enough relative to water itself to allow an assumption that they would be distributed more evenly throughout the pool. I understand that it takes a significant amount of energy to make that much deuterium or tritium, but they could use it as a simple go-no go kind of evaluation. IE, if there is a higher concentration,…
…. 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 8,125,370,000 trillion becquerels of radiation in the pa…
…the water and rise as a vapor to then return to the earth. Now if it were tritium it could but then again we already have that every time it rains anywhere on the planet because of the production of tritium in the upper atmosphere do to cosmic radiation. susie t. gibbs Hi Dryan, Thanks for you very superior attitude and making me feel a complete douche for daring to bother you all with my concerns. Clearly I do not have your high level of underst…
…r renewable energy where it makes sense. Windmills and solar don’t release tritium, nor do they produce plutonium and several other toxic radioactives. I also maintain (and rightfully so, as the facts are quite clear on this), that natural gas-based electrical power is far more economic, and less polluting with less risk, than nuclear. Oil is, of course, the key commodity in the world, from which wealth springs eternal. Hoarding of oil causes oil’…
…r – with tritium released from the depths of the earth – probably far more tritium will be released from a geothermal borehole than Vermont Yankee did with that small tritium leak – probably far more than a modern uranium mine does. Biomass is positively green, as in “glowing green”, with all the dangerous Carbon-14 that combustion of TREES releases into the atmosphere – probably leading to multiple times the human dose that even the worst-kept NP…
…into this. Candu reactors produce lots of tritium. For practical purposes, tritium is harmless. So the Canadian regulators set the limits high enough that a Candu could afford to meet them. Terrestrial’s design is an MSR which produces far less tritium than a Candu. Terrestrial argued that if the limits were safe enough for a Candu, then they were safe enough for the MSR. The regulators said no way and imposed far tighter limits on the Terrerstria…
…the only place I found a discussion of the potential doses from the leaked tritium. Jason I understand the view of higher-ups needing to work in the trenches a little to be enlightened to the challenges and intricacies of the operation. But that opinion is born of misdirected, albeit understandable, frustration. I’m a complete outsider – industry and profession – and I have enough critical thinking ability and common sense to look at a gallon of w…
…dwater “19 Jun (NucNet): Higher concentrations of the radioactive isotopes tritium and strontium-90 have been found in the groundwater below units 1 to 4 of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has confirmed” “The company said levels of tritium had been detected at 0.5 million becquerels per litre (Bq/ℓ) and of strontium-90 at 1,000 Bq/ℓ.” Further excerpt……. According to EPA guidelines, the m…
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…ter availability of Radiothor, the high value placed on radium, the use of tritium in consumer items, the use of X-ray equipment in shoe stores, and the popularity of uranium glazes for casual dinnerware. You forget about the multiple uses of the word “atomic” to signify modernity. Your question at the end vaguely reminds me of the Swedish referendum question from 1980 in which the only available choices were to oppose the continued use of nuclear…
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