…e 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 blowing smoke with…
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Public Information Meeting On Vermont Yankee and its Tritium Leak
…, Entergy hosted a public information meeting in Brattleboro, VT about the tritium leak at Vermont Yankee and the actions taken to find and stop the leak. The meeting was set up like a science fair or trade show, with booths and posters with informative displays and knowledgeable people to answer questions. I do not want to steal Meredith Angwin’s thunder, she attended the meeting and will probably be blogging about her impressions of the event at…
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…
Did you hear about the fly ash leaks?
…harges of purified primary coolant water that contains a certain amount of tritium. Aside: Tritium is produced in all water cooled reactors since water contains a certain amount of deuterium (hydrogen with two neutrons) and deuterium has a certain probability of absorbing an additional neutron if it is in a place full of extra neutrons. Operating nuclear reactors have lots of free neutrons in flux. Since tritium is simply an isotope of hydrogen, t…
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…
Who is targeting Turkey Point? Why? Part II
…Light (FPL) under the Clean Water Act (CWA). … Among those contaminants is tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen produced by nuclear reactors most often found as a groundwater contaminant at nuclear plants. Radioactive tritium has been documented in both surface and groundwater outside the Turkey Point nuclear complex and studies confirm a growing plume of hyper-saline water and other pollutants in all directions including into the Biscayne A…
Double Standards For Industrial Facilities That Release Potential Carcinogens as a Result of Equipment Malfunction
…ifies benzene as a known human carcinogen. The same organization says that tritium can increase the risk of cancer “as with all ionizing radiation”. Here is what the EPA also says about tritium – “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.” As far as I can tell, the only media outlets that have carried the Texas Cit…
Byron nuclear power plant loses power and shuts down
…t I had no idea why anyone would consider secondary side water to have ANY tritium in it. Even if there is a minute quantity of tritium, how can venting the plant during a shutdown release anything other than routine stuff since secondary side water always has a certain amount going to the atmosphere through various pathways? I apparently need to add to my education. Paul Lindsey I’ve been trying to “fight the good fight” over at sfgate.com (the o…
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…
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…
Overreaction to Outside Pressure Puts Vermont Yankee Safety Culture Into Question
…rblown media and political attention to a very minor issue – the amount of tritium in the ground under Vermont Yankee is no threat to anyone’s health and never will be. After thinking more about the situation and doing as much research as is possible for a guy who is several hundred miles away from plant and also has a pretty demanding full time job, I realized that the NRC has valid grounds for concern. Though the staff knows that the tritium is…
