Tritium is a red herring strontium and carbon-14 are in this shit

This filtration method is not verified by the same testing as other projects releasing diluted tritium water. Those comparisons are inaccurate as this is a contamination cleanup site, not a nuclear power plant. Water was directly in contact with the molten core it’s all nasty now 😓

  • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To be honest, no matter what reports are released about it, I will struggle to believe it’s safe, on multiple levels.

    • I agree the tritium thing is just one number, and the contamination of this water will be very varied. Tritium and radioactivity are two metrics, and it probably takes at least 100 metrics seriously and publicly analyzed to meaningfully have ideas about its safety.
    • Even then, the people in charge of this testing have very vested interests in claiming it’s totally okay no problems, so there’s a good possibility they just lie.
    • Even with the best of intentions and analysis of many variables, nuclear reactions are complex and nobody can be sure what contaminants are there or not; There’s always a bit of room for doubt unless we check every possible thing ever.