"The crisis reopened questions about how to deal with the flood of radioactive water accumulating at Fukushima. There is a radical option: to filter out as much radioactive material as possible, dilute what's left, and dump it in the Pacific."
I think they are filtering now, though they're having problems with one of their filtering units. They are probably weighing uncontrolled, unfiltered water leaking out of tanks which could end up in ocean anyway, versus filtering and controlled discharge.
There aren't too many options considering the circumstances. They could solidify the water, creating mounds of landfill waste. They could evaporate the water, but that would burn lots of fossil fuel, and would proceed very slowly. Airborne tritium would remain a tough problem.
Why aren't they filtering it, when filtering technology exists? That would make any follow-up more managable.
ReplyDeleteThey are filtering prior to dumping:
ReplyDelete"The crisis reopened questions about how to deal with the flood of radioactive water accumulating at Fukushima. There is a radical option: to filter out as much radioactive material as possible, dilute what's left, and dump it in the Pacific."
Yes, I saw that, but are they doing that now? My impression is not.
ReplyDeleteBTW the dilution idea is daft.
I think they are filtering now, though they're having problems with one of their filtering units. They are probably weighing uncontrolled, unfiltered water leaking out of tanks which could end up in ocean anyway, versus filtering and controlled discharge.
DeleteThere aren't too many options considering the circumstances. They could solidify the water, creating mounds of landfill waste. They could evaporate the water, but that would burn lots of fossil fuel, and would proceed very slowly. Airborne tritium would remain a tough problem.
About diluting...
DeleteHA! HA! Right wing moron.
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