Turning H20 to H30 -Radioactive Water

Use No 4.

TURNING H20 to H30 Radioactive Water

Sellafield reprocessing discharges around 8 million litres of radioactive liquids into the Irish Sea every day. Much of this is radioactive hydrogen also known as tritium. Official figures are often given excluding tritium - but it is far from harmless!

Tritium is radioactive water or water vapour - the water itself is radioactive - not something dissolved in the water. It is not considered an external hazard - but should you inhale, ingest or even absorb tritium through the skin it is very harmful. Health effects of tritium are cancers and genetic mutations.

http://www.oldburynuclearviewpoint.org.uk/articles/article-21-2010-02/tritium-factsheet-for-oldbury

Tritium

The radionuclide tritium is a significant by-product of many nuclear operations, and is prominent in groundwater studies. ..

Potential sources of tritium leaked to ground from spent fuel processing include active evaporator overheads, as well as effluent treatment facilities, ponds and sludge storage tanks.

Page 41 Sellafield Sites Annual Report 2009

http://www.sellafieldsites.com/land/documents/TECH000221-Rev-2-Annual-Report-09.pdf

SUCKING THE SEA LIFE FROM THE OCEANS

Use No 3.

SUCKING THE SEA LIFE FROM THE OCEANS

New "as many as possible" reactors proposed for Sellafield would use sea water to cool the reactors. Fresh water is used to cool the wastes.

"Half the commercial catch for some regions" in the UK is destroyed by sea water abstraction.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3740173.ece

Use No 2.

HEATING THE OCEANS

Nuclear reactors use sea water for cooling, billions of gallons of seawater are heated and pumped back out to the oceans. Raised temperatures - not to mention the chemicals used to keep the pipes "clean" don't do marine species any favours...

a report commissioned by British Energy (2008) estimated that new generation reactors would need 72000 litres per second of cooling water. This is more than the average flow of the River Thames at Teddington Lock.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust

http://www.savekirksanton.org.uk/sites/default/files/document/cumbria%20wildlife%20trust%20response%20to%20ecc%20consultation%20on%20nps.pdf

Another terrible explosion in Japan this morning. The most technologically advanced nation on earth cannot pump enough seawater into the stricken and boiling reactors.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/15/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-japan

FRESH WATER NUKED

Use 1

How to use freshwater resources.

Today 4 million gallons of water were abstracted from Britain's favourite view - Wastwater- to cool nuclear wastes at Sellafield.. the same amount of freshwater used by three cumbrian towns daily. The high level nuke waste in Cumbria includes spent fuel, sent (by boat with military escorts) from Japan and reprocessed at Sellafield. Reprocessing is banned in the USA as the dirty old process makes already dangerous high level wastes even more dangerous.

Tomorrow 4 million gallons of freshwater will be used to cool the wastes at Sellafield ....

http://www.tennerfilms.com/index.php/guest-blog/94-feb-2010

Today in Japan

"The earthquake appears to be causing the greatest problems for the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, although several reactors at both sites were affected by the earthquake. Specifically , Fukushima 1-2 has lost back up power (fossil fuel ) and necessary cooling capacity (water) ".

nirsnet@nirs.org

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110312-red-alert-nuclear-meltdown-quake-damaged-japanese-plant?utm_source=redalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110312%284%29&utm_content=readmore&elq=464c899d2e6847429591aaa8baff429f