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> Possibly Holtec is proposing a technically-legal ecological and health war crime. But you can't tell from this article. You pretty much can. The release of t
by wodenokoto 4y ago
> Possibly Holtec is proposing a technically-legal ecological and health war crime. But you can't tell from this article.
You pretty much can. The release of the water would be no different from the plants operating practice throughout the last 59 years, as per the article.
That indicates that this is pretty benign.
- mindslight 4y agoPast standards aren't necessarily an indication though, based on what else was allowed to go on. I do agree that as described, the best option seems to be putting it in the river. And the best way to trade off time for lower concentrations of tritium is to limit the release rate. For example, if one is willing to wait 24 years to reduce the concentration by 75%, one can trickle the water out into the Hudson over that time and reduce the concentration much more. The whole article feels like typical journalism where they hide the numbers and go back and forth on binary options. When here especially, the numbers are most of what matters. edit: Pages 30 and 13 of the engineering report linked elsewhere in this thread says that the routine operating release was less than 1% of what is allowed by federal law, IIUC.