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"Still, the NRC and industry consider the leaks a public relations problem, not a public health or accident threat, records and interviews show." https://www.a
by smaudet 4y ago
"Still, the NRC and industry consider the leaks a public relations problem, not a public health or accident threat, records and interviews show."
https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2012/part-ii-ap-impact-tritium-leaks-found-at-many-nuke-sites#:~:text=Tritium%2C%20which%20is%20a%20radioactive,at%20aging%20nuclear%20power%20plants https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2012/part-ii-ap-impact-tri....
And this is why we should not trust any fission-bearing folk. Or apparently fusion-bearing folk either.
- mlindner 4y agoTritium leaks are indeed public relations problems, if done in the very small quantities that would be in a fusion reactor.
- pfdietz 4y ago> very small quantities that would be in a fusion reactor Fusion reactors would involve much more tritium than in a fission reactor. In the latter, especially LWRs, tritium comes from rare ternary fission events. In a DT fusion reactor, T is a primary fuel. A 1 GWe fusion plant will burn about 150 kg of tritium a year. To illustrate how much that is: that quantity of tritium would be enough to raise 2 months worth of the average flow of the Mississippi River above the legal limit for drinking water.