tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post3580899739154139675..comments2024-03-27T00:22:35.272-07:00Comments on EXSKF: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman: IAEA's Recommendation to Release Water from #Fukushima I NPP Appropriatearevamirpal::laprimaverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10637620330944911600noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-88750910270229705262013-12-11T10:30:28.109-08:002013-12-11T10:30:28.109-08:00Just to wrap up on this thread, it seems a done de...Just to wrap up on this thread, it seems a done deal that the ALPS treated water will be released, despite its elevated tritium content.<br />The IAEA has blessed it, the Japanese government obviously wants it, so it will get done.<br />Imho, it would be more productive to pay close attention to the ALPS reports than to highlight the tritium issue. The tritium is exchanged fairly quickly in the body, unlike strontium or other heavy metals. <br />The contamination effects can be minimized if ALPS works well, but I fear that the pressures to 'play ball' will push people to allow inadequately cleaned water to be released. As a multiple ion removal process, ALPS may be working great for some contaminants while failing dismally on others. I know of no agreed on standard for releasing the treated water, so it may be that it is declared clean simply by virtue of passing through ALPS. This would be expedient, but would not be a correct conclusion.<br />However, whether anyone in Japan could report such an outcome without risking a jail sentence is uncertain.netudianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726679291917155189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-37709685612647476622013-12-06T12:56:28.034-08:002013-12-06T12:56:28.034-08:00@ 7:33,
netudiant appears to have been referring ...@ 7:33,<br /><br />netudiant appears to have been referring to ALPS' sales team. The "2 yrs and 9 months" that Beppe referred to has also seen a National Security Council-type body formed in Japanese government, a Secrecy Act to thwart whistleblowing, and the NRC putting its stamp of approval on dumping huge volumes of contaminated water directly into the Pacific fishery.<br />"achievement(s)"<br /><br />Japan refused direct massive financial help in decontaminating in that 2yrs. 9mos., and that also may be a sales team "achievement", also.<br /><br />Salespeak Really does care what you think, it Really does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-25648602257759378052013-12-06T07:33:56.030-08:002013-12-06T07:33:56.030-08:00Oh, by the way, ALPS is NOT an achievement -- not ...Oh, by the way, ALPS is NOT an achievement -- not until it works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-43497099148346273742013-12-06T07:31:01.105-08:002013-12-06T07:31:01.105-08:00Netudiant,
forgetting rubber mats inside that ALPS...Netudiant,<br />forgetting rubber mats inside that ALPS tanks is a kind of ineptitude that does not originate from new technology; more likely is the same shoddiness that originated the accident in the first place.<br />Furthermore, it is inacceptable that we need to wait for new technology to be developed *after* a nuclear disaster has occoured. This research should have been done *before* the accident, at the latest after Chernobyl. Again, had it been a money making business I guess the nuclear industry would have been more proactive.<br />The nuclear industry must stop externalizing the costs of handling the poisons it produces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-27234139193337041392013-12-06T04:46:07.262-08:002013-12-06T04:46:07.262-08:00The ALPS system is new engineering, afaik, so it i...The ALPS system is new engineering, afaik, so it is unsurprising that it would take some time to develop and to debug operationally.<br />The kind of comprehensive radioactive contaminant cleanup that it is designed to achieve is unprecedented and a substantial achievement.<br />The system does not remove tritium and there is no system that does.<br /><br />The Kurion offering is reported to be an extension of the Canadian tritium removal system, which serves to remove tritium from the heavy water used to moderate their Candu reactors. The amounts of water to be treated at Fukushima are about a thousand times more than the volumes processed in Canada, so there would be large engineering challenges to adapt the technology. It would be reasonable to assume a five year interval at a minimum before it would be operational, assuming it were demonstrated to work.netudianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726679291917155189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-65228741016510755432013-12-06T03:59:18.128-08:002013-12-06T03:59:18.128-08:00They're only ever concerned about whether the ...They're only ever concerned about whether the radiation will obviously reach another land mass, but they don't seem to ever consider what the radiation will do to everything in the ocean.<br /><br />People often forget we're still on the same planet as the ocean. The effects of dumping all sorts of shit there will eventually come back to us. But I guess nobody ever cares about that since they won't be around to suffer from it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-13372710761562602712013-12-06T02:38:47.040-08:002013-12-06T02:38:47.040-08:00I am not sure whether the ALPS problems are minor ...I am not sure whether the ALPS problems are minor or not but, after 2 yrs and 9 months of throwing water the filtering is not yet in place. Had it been a money making operation things might have been different.<br />Tepco needs to be removed from managing the disaster it caused in the first place.<br /><br />BeppeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com