…d maintenance expenditures as a result of regulatory overreactions to 911, tritium leaks and Fukushima. The magnitude of these increases is difficult to pin down, but plant workers have reported expenditures of $50 M to $100 M at their facility solely due to Fukushima-related modifications. Many of those investments have already been made, but the experience has taught board members that the next event that can cause a ratchet in nuclear costs can…
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Neutron Doodle – a 2002 Song Whose Time Has Come to Go Viral
…the help of people like Gail, who shared this story and video on her blog and Kevin McCoy who wrote the song and produced the video with help from a company singing group called “Tritium”, perhaps hydroelectric dams and nuclear energy will have one more thing in common – the use of music to share their story….
Proud to be a Fusion Skeptic
…fuel–hydrogen–is virtually unlimited, although proposed reactors will use tritium, a hydrogen isotope made from lithium, which is scarcer. The current facility isn’t built to generate electricity. But Moses says that with the right funding (Emphasis added), a power plant using fusion from a system like the one at NIF could be running in a decade. Of course, you could also find the quote from another skeptic, Ian Hutchinson, who happens to be a pr…
How would a Rockefeller crony react to Eddington’s vision of subatomic energy?
…of contaminated water that has been stripped from all radioisotopes except tritium. Tritium does not bioaccumulate and would instantly dilute to completely harmless (and even undetectable) levels if released. La Hague releases 10 times as much tritium every year than is stored at Fukushima, without any environmental impact. By claiming that these releases might be dangerous, the fishermen are adding to the FUD. I guess they are mainly motivated by…
Trip report from visit to NS Savannah
…nged, let alone anyone else. AndyH Does anyone know where to purchase BULK Tritium keychains? Or what the procedure would be getting tritium and assembling them? I purchased five a few years ago, but have since given them all away. Through a professional contact I have weekend access to a 5 axis CNC machine and a fume hood (so I can safely work with the needed resins or acrylic). The only problem is the tritium, purchasing individual vials is too…
Smoking gun: Robert Anderson provided initial funds to form Friends of the Earth
…ecently I saw a “report” foaming at the mouth that 200-400 terabecqurel of tritium may have leaked from Fukushima. Well, there’s a 100 GBq of tritium in an exit sign. Eric Schmitz Another case of picking one’s units to make the numbers sound however you want them to. I came across an article a few days ago that I should have bookmarked, that defined the various units and their relationships. Could be useful to find that, although once people hear…
IBM Leader Tells Vermont Politicians That a 25% Increase in Their Power Bill Would Force Them To Shut Down
…u drank all the water containing the tritium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium The main problem with tritium would be if you managed to breath some in so that the radiation stayed in one location (your lungs) for an extended period unable to be removed by the body. There might be a possibility of some damage then. However, if you drink the stuff, you body would naturally process it with the water you have and remove it after a fairly short per…
What a waste – Vermont Yankee is in beautiful condition
…issue in Vermont the tritium release? If there is an additional barrier to tritium entering the environment, then tritium release would certainly be mitigated — if not eliminated entirely. Finally, one thing that environmentalists like to ping on is waste heat itself — that would clearly be mitigated. Rod Adams @Rick Armknecht I like the idea of beneficially using VY’s “waste” heat. The tritium issue was a rallying cry, but it was so insignifica…
Lockheed’s fusion sales pitch
…t 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 plan to address those issues. I know, they won’t face those until later, but they are the ones that need to be answered to get a license. So i…
Diablo Canyon pitching in to help alleviate drought with desalination
…ty if this proposal is activated.? Harry Jordan What’s with the issue over tritium? Is it the permeation from TPBAR’s or reactor cooling systems specifically? The natural occurring atmospheric tritium equilibrium level from high energy cosmic rays interacting with atmospheric nitrogen and storm lightening etc was about 2.6 TBq. I’m a scuba diver and so I need tritium for my equipment- watch and compass on night dives, so replaced every 12.3 yrs. (…
Plutonium power for the people
…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…
The first Critmass, December 2, 1942
…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…
