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The headline sounds a little misleading: > The Asahi newspaper reported that any such release is expected to take at around two years to prepare, as the site’s
by ardy42 6y ago
The headline sounds a little misleading:
> The Asahi newspaper reported that any such release is expected to take at around two years to prepare, as the site’s irradiated water first needs to pass through a filtration process before it can be further diluted with seawater and finally released into the ocean.
> In 2018, Tokyo Electric apologised after admitting its filtration systems had not removed all dangerous material from the water, collected from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting when the plant was crippled.
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> It has said it plans to remove all radioactive particles from the water except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is hard to separate and is considered to be relatively harmless.
Water is water, so if they manage to sufficiently remove the contaminants I don't see much of an issue.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThe solution to pollution is dilution.
- freeflight 6y agoTho that only works up to a certain scale, after a while you reach saturation and then there's nothing left to dilute into. Really no different to carbon emissions: For the longest time we thought we could just "dilute" these emissions into our atmosphere, decades later we have come to the realization that even the planets atmosphere ain't infinite and thus can be saturated by human activity.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoDeposit your pollution across the largest number of human livers and pituitary glands as possible! Profit!
- lxe 6y ago"A little?" buried deep in the article is the core piece of info.
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- LatteLazy 6y ago>It has said it plans to remove all radioactive particles from the water except tritium If this is actually possible, doesn't it solve all the world's radioactive waste problems? Turn 100 tonnes of contaminated waste into 100 grams of actual waste and the rest is pure water.
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- aeternum 6y agoFor the most part, yes this works. We basically use the same process to refine radioactive ore into a more pure form. The method is generally with giant centrifuges since radioactive isotopes have different numbers of neutrons and therefore different weights. In general what we call radioactive waste is also fissionable so can be used in subsequent reactors.