Nuclear Engineer Explains the Fukushima Water Release - September 2023

Nuclear Engineer Explains the Fukushima Water Release - September 2023 | NUCLEAR NEWS

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In this month's episode, I discuss the last of the German reactors shutting down back in April, and I address the controversy around the release of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Check out my extended commentary on German reactors for free on my Patreon: / german-reactor-90092887
Articles referenced:
world-nuclear-news.org/Articl...
world-nuclear-news.org/Articl...
References:
[1] www.nrc.gov/reactors/operatin...
[2] www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...
[3] www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...
[4] www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommissi...
[5] www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...
[6] hps.org/publicinformation/ate/...
Additional references:
www.sciencemediacentre.org/ex...
www.nrc.gov/reactors/operatin...
world-nuclear-news.org/Articl...
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...
www.meti.go.jp/english/earthq...
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:11 German Reactors Shut Down
00:41 Fukushima Starts Releasing Water
01:07 What is tritium?
03:26 How will they release the water?
04:56 How dangerous is tritium?
09:07 What does 4 mrem per year mean?
#fukushima #tritium

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@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

Check out my extended commentary on German reactors for free on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/german-reactor-90092887

@Ksargeant811 10 ай бұрын

This kind of makes me wish HBO would create a mini series about the Fukushima disaster like they did with Chernobyl. Thanks for the info and I love how you break things down to more simple minded people like myself.

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 10 ай бұрын

The HBO mini series had a lot of fluff and inaccuracies.

@Ksargeant811 10 ай бұрын

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk yes but it was a very good and compelling story. The earthquake, tsunami, and resulting Fukushima disaster could very easily be just as compelling or even more so.

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 10 ай бұрын

@@Ksargeant811 There are several Hollywood type movies about Fukushima. None of them are accurate either.

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

are there any completely accurate Hollywood movies? if not, is it better to think of their value being something other than accuracy?

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 10 ай бұрын

@@TheAtomicAgeCM But as you know, the media and movies have always had an agenda to make sure to instill fear into their targets and keep them ignorant of nuclear energy. This has always been a consistent theme since the 1970's.

@jjohn662 10 ай бұрын

The BEST explanation ever for this headline. Thanks 🙏

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

Wow, that was actually rather inadvertent on my part, I was just trying to keep it short, but it actually is a very good four-word explanation haha thank you!

@kilo3324 10 ай бұрын

Its so refreshing to hear the truth from a person currently working in the field.

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

thanks so much! You're amazingly kind. I really appreciate it

@californiumblog 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic. Thank you for the breakdown of the numbers!

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

you're welcome!

@spacemaster13 10 ай бұрын

Very thorough explanation 💜💜

@kilo3324 10 ай бұрын

Keep doing what you are doing! You are doing an awesome job!

@swokatsamsiyu3590 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the atomic news update. I really like this new format. Germany should bear eternal shame for killing off their award-winning nuclear reactors, to then having to replace it with Ligtnite coal, the worst offender when it comes to pollution. Like Germany's NPPs will ever see a Tsunami🤦

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 10 ай бұрын

Would you allow your video to appear on our Fukushima hysteria debunking channel? We feature videos exclusively to counter the lies about the Fukushima accident which are prevalent all over KZfaq. The videos we have are from many contributors who have allowed their work to appear. We are not monetized and all videos are given full credit and linked back to your channel.

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

yeah sure, thanks for asking!

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 10 ай бұрын

@@TheAtomicAgeCM Thanks, I posted it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/et5ppL1mzajck3k.html Unfortunately, non-KZfaq links are blocked in the description box for the last month or so since KZfaq has demanded more private information or a face scan in order to post links away from KZfaq. I would normally post them all in all the hundreds of other videos we have on the channel. So for now they will have to revert back to your channel for full active links.

@matthayward7889 10 ай бұрын

Comparing radiation exposure from an even to things like background radiation or medical X-rays is the easiest way for me to understand it

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

You know, me too. Hearing a radiation number, I can say "that's low" or "that's getting up there" but this video was helpful for me as well.

@ronoconnor8971 8 ай бұрын

I remember when San Onofre was opened there was a change in the sea creatures offshore. I think it was size and abnormalities.

@madmax2069 8 ай бұрын

To further put this into perspective, normal background radiation is usually around 0.10 - 0.50 uSv/h (microsieverts an hour) depending on where you live, some places can be higher, some places can be lower. 1000 uSv (microsieverts) equals 1 mSv (milisievert), 1000 mSv equals 1 Sv (Sievert), it takes 1 million microsieverts to equal 1 Sievert. Where i live in one months time normal background accumulates to around 70 - 120 uSv, in one year its around 840 uSv - 1.4 mSv (which is nothing).

@johanjacobs9240 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your input regarding this matter and put our concerns at ease. So that means there are no risk for marine life at all. Greetings from South Africa. On a side note. They are in the process to refurbish our nuclear reactor plant at Cape Town at the moment. One of the planned operations is to replace the steam generators. What risk does that have on the environment?

@killingtimeitself 10 ай бұрын

replacing the steam generators is likely to be low impact, assuming proper handling, depending on the materials if you just stuff it in a field somewhere thats probably never good for the environment. But assuming they don't it's no more impact than building a house would arguably have.

@user-od2fp3nr9w 6 ай бұрын

I am aware of the dire situation in Fukushima. I also know about the discrimination faced by people due to radioactive contamination from nuclear weapons dropped in Japan. These events are ongoing. The concentration of seawater pollution near the ALPS treated water discharge and the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests (specifically, the Bravo Crater near the Daigo Fukuryu Maru incident) is comparable. Residual levels in processed ALPS water: Cesium-137: 1-5 becquerels Strontium-90: 1-10 becquerels (TEPCO announced data) Bikini Atoll: Seawater at Bravo Crater: 3.7 becquerels (1969) The conclusion is that, as of 1969, the seawater from the Bravo Crater at Bikini Atoll, where the highest levels of radioactive substance (Cesium-137) were detected, shows little difference in residual Cesium-137 compared to ALPS treated water. Source: "Bioconcentration" by Tohru Yamagata Published by Industrial Library in 1978

@JimAllen-Persona 10 ай бұрын

I’m thinking of Avogadro’s number .. 1500 is pretty small. Good thing this didn’t happen in the States- someone would be bottling it as healthy.

@TheAtomicAgeCM 10 ай бұрын

good thought! even then, the amount of atoms decaying per second is a small, small fraction compared to avogadros number

@jimboburgess42069 9 ай бұрын

Would I gain weight if I drank heavy water?

@TheAtomicAgeCM 9 ай бұрын

If you drank enough yeah I think so. but I think there are other health issues regarding heavy water

@emperorSbraz 10 ай бұрын

bUT pLEASE SOMEONE tHINK oF tHE cHILDREN !

@Sirie7206 10 ай бұрын

😂

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 10 ай бұрын

Why? All nuclear power plants in the world have always released the same tritiated water and nothing in world history has ever been harmed by this practice.

@emperorSbraz 10 ай бұрын

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk if you notice my post is written in inverted caps: it is the internet calligraphy convention of jokes and sarcarsm, kinda like appending "/s".