…e.” Seventy-five percent of nuclear plants in the U.S. are leaking, mainly tritium. Also, it only takes one nuclear accident to upset a whole nation – with either perceived or real dangers. The real dangers, as we know, are large numbers of birth defects and permanent genetic damage that gets passed up generations. We can’t afford even a single reactor accident, and now we have about 9 or 10 that are in trouble around the world, including Chernoby…
…s fuel for their fire. But you are right to educate people about this. The tritium stories seem to be the most abused. It would go much further if someone did a comparative analysis to show just how much Tritium is truly risky, layed out in very clear terms the relative strengths for instance of radiation from a doctors visit, radiation from coal ash fallout etc. Rick Maltese You may have read that Google is testing cars that can drive themselves….
…, here in Vermont, I am blogging about bananas. Okay, about beta-emitters. Tritium in the water of a close-to-the plant test well at Vermont Yankee. Obviously, the most dangerous environmental impact in history! All the Democratic candidates for governor of Vermont have stated that they are in favor of closing Vermont Yankee. Five candidates, with just one aim in mind. Great work, Rod. katana0182 (Dave) Perhaps it’s grandstanding to win the primar…
…reactor design is that they intend to use FLiBe as the neutron-capture and tritium-breeding blanket. This also allows heat capture at very high temperatures. Given the proven ability of Li-7 to fission under fast neutron bombardment with a net neutron yield, I can see this working if they can get the rest of it to function. Engineer-Poet Looks like it’s ripe for an alternate intake pipe if such conditions become frequent. John ONeill ‘… and som…
…Chu to the Vermont Public Service Board about the (tempest in) a teapot of tritium. He could put on his professor’s hat and do a show-and-tell with a liter of tritium-laced water at the EPA limit and an averaged-sized banana. katana0182 (Dave) There is an urgent need for jobs; national security is imperiled by unfriendly sources of energy abroad, meaning that utilization of domestic energy must be maximized – with a preference – though not exclusi…
…a company in New Mexico entering this market using an Ultracapacitor using Tritium as fuel. With slight modification, Thorium Dioxide will charge an Ultracapacitor if subjected to resonant magnetic vortex to accelerate beta decay. I am suggesting a reversed cyclotron accelerater to stimulate beta decay. Nano technology is the down sizing of nuclear energy to a level that any one of us can manage. John Tucker Even without the benefit of the clean e…
…find it helpful. I was told that there is a total of ~17 quadrillion Bq of tritium that is now distributed within 777,000 tons of water (in the tanks). I did some calcs based on the ingestion dose conversion factor for tritium, of 1.73E-11 Sv/Bq (from EPA Federal Guidance Report #11). The calcs show that if a person drank 1 liter of water directly out of the tanks (i.e., no dilution, in the Pacific, etc..), they would get a dose of ~4 millirem. Th…
…ll the workers affected will show up. I would also invite them to take the tritium challenge as the amount found in the water were said to be insignificant and of no danger to public health nor the environment. I would have a few jugs of TEG – ‘Tritium Enhanced Gatorade’ at the door step. Serve chilled. Daniel T Boone Pickens was on Morgan Piers Tonight yesterday. At some point they engaged on energy … Oil, gas, wind, solar … Nothing on nuclea…
…nergy. He manages for example to focus particularly on the inconsequential tritium emissions from the nuclear lifecycle, while totally ignoring the serious problems threatening the “Energiewende” in Germany. To me, this bias completely explains his conclusions. Mr. Marriot would do himself and everybody a very great service if he applied his attention to detail (like he does in terms of the tritium non-issue) to the far more serious issue of the m…
…tatement that nuclear energy is zero emission because some plants have had tritium leaks, and I hope we both agree that tritium leaks have never posed any risk to the general population. Once you recognize that LNT is the basis for the special treatment of nuclear power plants compared to their competition, I’d recommend reading Charles Komanoff’s 1981 book titled “Power Plant Cost Escalation: Nuclear and Coal Capital Costs, Regulation, and Econom…
…news talked about some nuclear power plant releases some small amounts of tritium into the environment. For example: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/jan/11/tvreports-tritium-leak-browns-ferry/282080/. Engineer-Poet =(D7-(D7*pow(0.5,(1/B7)))) I should warn you that you’re taking the difference of two numbers which differ by a very small amount, which incurs major loss of accuracy in floating-point calculations. I did the same…
…excellent neutronics (except for the rarer Lithium isotopes which produces tritium), there’s also Be F which has the positive side effect of neutron multiplication. But Beryllium has health issues in some humans. Hence the famous F Li Be coolant. But Terrestrial has yet to announce its initial salt choice. It could even be NaCl, MSRs naturally have so many neutronic advantages over LWRs that they can even use NaCl and live with the somewhat worse…
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