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Georgia residents may pay for Jaczko’s antinuclear behavior

ByRod Adams

…orney General refused to indict anyone for perjury in the controversy over tritium leaks at Vermont Yankee. Not surprisingly, Governor Schumlin maintained his insistence that Entergy employees lied, despite the lack of evidence for that assertion. China Daily reports that Chinese suppliers are looking forward to selling AP1000 components to the UK during its new build process. The UK regulators recently removed one of the last remaining obstacles…

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Brinksmanship tactic fails in Illinois. Competitors handed easy victory

ByRod Adams

…been imposed as a result of regulatory ratcheting in overreaction to 911, tritium “leaks”, Fukushima and less publicized issues like “open phase condition.” Financial pressures aren’t just due to insufficient sales revenue, they are also added by cost increases that are also driven by political choices. End Aside. Tom Kacich, writing for the News-Gazette in Springfield, IL, explained that Exelon had issued an ultimatum. If legislation was not pas…

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How Can We Halt The Reverse Great Bandwagon In Nuclear?

ByRod Adams

…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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Smoking gun: Robert Anderson provided initial funds to form Friends of the Earth

ByRod Adams

…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…

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How would a Rockefeller crony react to Eddington’s vision of subatomic energy?

ByRod Adams

…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…

IBM Leader Tells Vermont Politicians That a 25% Increase in Their Power Bill Would Force Them To Shut Down

ByRod Adams

…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…

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What a waste – Vermont Yankee is in beautiful condition

ByRod Adams

…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

ByRod Adams

…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…

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Trip report from visit to NS Savannah

ByRod Adams

…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…

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Diablo Canyon pitching in to help alleviate drought with desalination

ByRod Adams

…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. (…

All-nuclear power grids are not only feasible, but proven and operating today

All-nuclear power grids are not only feasible, but proven and operating today

ByRod Adams

…e private wells. In a survey of all 10 of its nuclear plants, Exelon found tritium in the ground at two others. On Tuesday, it said it had had another spill at Braidwood, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago, and on Thursday, the attorney general of Illinois announced she was filing a lawsuit against the company over that leak and five earlier ones, dating to 1996. The suit demands among other things that the utility provide substitute water suppli…

Did US Navy patent a functional fusion device?

ByRod Adams

…ts-has-now-filed-one-for-a-compact-fusion-reactor MikeE Looks like it is a tritium-suppressed system, meaning tritium is continuously removed from the plasma. In that case neutrons carry about 6 percent of the energy – compared to 3 percent in a fission plant. Engineer-Poet Interesting comment from The Drive, emphasis added: This latest design is the brainchild of the elusive Salvatore Cezar Pais, the inventor of the Navy’s bizarre and controversi…

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