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Journalism reviewer “frustrated” by AP series on nuclear plant aging issues

ByRod Adams

…fluids and potentially harmful chemicals. As Mike H pointed out, the whole tritium issue can be better understood by simple math – amount released times the concentration in the released fluid – and then a comparison against a reasonable standard, like the amount of tritium inside an illuminated exit sign. With regard to making INPO reports public, it must be remembered that the nuclear industry has some very rich and powerful enemies that have di…

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Fission advocates should cooperate to dispel misinformation about radiation health effects

ByRod Adams

…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…

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The battle for the atom is heating up again

ByRod Adams

…energy where facts and reality will overcome fictional tall tales spun by folks like Arnie Gundersen or Paul Blanche. PS I have just found out that part two of the Associated Press salvo against nuclear energy focuses on tritium issues. That has been a topic of numerous posts here on Atomic Insights. If you get nervous about tritium, please do a search using that word to find more than two dozen articles that put it into perspective….

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Atomic Show #149 – Pro Nuclear Bloggers Reaction to SOTU Address

ByRod Adams

…discussed the increase in the loan guarantee program, and the formation of the blue ribbon commission about used nuclear fuel policy. We also spent quite a bit of time talking about Vermont Yankee and the incredibly tiny quantity of tritium that has people demanding a full investigation and possibly a plant shutdown because someone found 0.000000029 curies/liter of tritium, an amount that would have a mass of just 0.0000000000029 grams distribute…

Another Isotope has been found at minute concentrations at the Vermont Yankee leak site

ByRod Adams

…m the Vermont Department of Health on their page titled Investigation into Tritium Contamination at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) Cs-137 is not a naturally occurring isotope; it is only produced when uranium is split in a fission reaction. It is not produced with every fission, breaking uranium nuclei with a neutron is a process that nearly always produces two different atomic nuclei of various sizes, but exactly which two is a matter of p…

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Another day, another model “proving” capabilities of weather-dependent power

ByRod Adams

…hydro? Engineer-Poet That depends.  Actual thermonuclear weapons don’t use tritium, and tritium-boosted fission weapons start with fission weapons.  How much material you need for the latter, compared to how much creates a water-quality issue, I have not studied.  I’m sure the numbers for weapons are classified anyway. Bill Rodgers Dams are still considered either run-of-the-river or storage dams in the part of the country where I used to live and…

Jaczko comes out as avowed antinuclear activist

ByRod Adams

…ng benzene, a known cancer causing agent and at higher concentrations then tritium, was subject to the same requirements as the tritium, our entire economy would be shut down in the next hour. Or we could talk about wind tower failures and solar panel manufacturing where innocent workers have suffered injuries and deaths. This comment goes two points. The first point is that we could go on for pages and pages comparing accidents. Industrial accide…

The Limitations of States Rights – Vermont Yankee Is Heavily Involved in Interstate Commerce

ByRod Adams

…mbered that I should have posted a link to back up my assertions about the tritium release limits in Canada. http://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/updates/tritium_drinking_water_aug_2009.cfm katana0182 (Dave) Electrical power is inherently an interstate commodity (outside of Texas, which has its own grid, for reasons unknown but to history). We have 3 grids in CONUS – the Eastern Interconnect, the Western Interconnect, and the Texas Interconn…

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Atomic Show #208 – Communicating about nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…The NRC says no no … I will se you both in jail !!! No frivolous use of Tritium. In response to your electronic mail dated October 23, 2007, concerning keyrings containing tritium, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has determined that a license is required to distribute products similar to the Traser “glowring” key chains. �Although the devices are allowed in the United Kingdom, they are not licensed here. �NRC regulations [10 CFR 30.19(c…

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15 nation radiation cancer study used questionable data

ByRod Adams

…since I had extensive work with radiation detectors, however as I recall, Tritium releases a very low energy (about 5 to 15 kev) Beta that does not even penetrate dead skin. Tritium only passes through a few mm of air, and is essentially immeasurable by the old mica “pancake” scintillation detectors used back then. These old instruments were only sensitive to beta particles with an energy level greater than 60 – 100 kev, thus to get the dose they…

ProPublica asks (more than a year ago) – Is New York's Marcellus shale too hot to handle?

ByRod Adams

…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…

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There are three Superfuels – uranium, thorium and plutonium

ByRod Adams

…terium resource can be extended by also using the more energetic Deuterium-Tritium fusion reaction. Tritium can be produced from Lithium dissolved in sea water after it has undergone a transmutation resulting from a neutron absorption in the presence of neutrons. Current approaches to fusion, that receive large portions of the US nuclear R&D budget, will never threaten fossil fuel interests for at least 100 years. PACER fusion, based on LLNL and L…

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