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Half life of Tritum is about 12.5 years, much more favorable than elements used in fission reactions.
by CodeWriter23 7y ago
Half life of Tritum is about 12.5 years, much more favorable than elements used in fission reactions.
- radicalbyte 7y agoTrue, but on the other side if it gets into the water system in any significant quantities then that's going to a bad for local residents. However I can't see that happening. You'd have to have the tanks of it very close to the reactor. That's something you'd obviously not do. There's probably a greater risk transporting the stuff (road accidents) or in bad maintenance of the tanks or human error (emptying the tanks by accident).
- amluto 7y agoIt seems to me that one could avoid storing any tritium as a liquid. Tritium gas is light will generally tend to rise. Insoluble tritium salts will be less likely to enter the ground water. Although... an inexpensive risk mitigation would be to wrap any tritiated water tanks with sodium polyacrylate. Imagine a giant diaper. Leaks would be absorbed.