#tritium — Public Fediverse posts
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Die @dfg_public verlängert die Förderung des #Graduiertenkollegs #Wasserstoffisotope ¹²³H um weitere 4,5 Jahre in Höhe von ca. 5,5 Mio. Euro. Ziel des Kollegs ist es, Arbeitskräfte von morgen in neuen Technologien rund um die 3 Wasserstoffisotope #Protium, #Deuterium und #Tritium auszubilden. Diese kommen u.a. in der #Kernfusion, bei der #Arzneistoffentwicklung und zur Herstellung von #Handydisplays zum Einsatz:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/graduiertenkolleg-123h-millionenfoerderung-durch-dfg-2025-12-15 -
Die @dfg_public verlängert die Förderung des #Graduiertenkollegs #Wasserstoffisotope ¹²³H um weitere 4,5 Jahre in Höhe von ca. 5,5 Mio. Euro. Ziel des Kollegs ist es, Arbeitskräfte von morgen in neuen Technologien rund um die 3 Wasserstoffisotope #Protium, #Deuterium und #Tritium auszubilden. Diese kommen u.a. in der #Kernfusion, bei der #Arzneistoffentwicklung und zur Herstellung von #Handydisplays zum Einsatz:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/graduiertenkolleg-123h-millionenfoerderung-durch-dfg-2025-12-15 -
Die @dfg_public verlängert die Förderung des #Graduiertenkollegs #Wasserstoffisotope ¹²³H um weitere 4,5 Jahre in Höhe von ca. 5,5 Mio. Euro. Ziel des Kollegs ist es, Arbeitskräfte von morgen in neuen Technologien rund um die 3 Wasserstoffisotope #Protium, #Deuterium und #Tritium auszubilden. Diese kommen u.a. in der #Kernfusion, bei der #Arzneistoffentwicklung und zur Herstellung von #Handydisplays zum Einsatz:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/graduiertenkolleg-123h-millionenfoerderung-durch-dfg-2025-12-15 -
Die @dfg_public verlängert die Förderung des #Graduiertenkollegs #Wasserstoffisotope ¹²³H um weitere 4,5 Jahre in Höhe von ca. 5,5 Mio. Euro. Ziel des Kollegs ist es, Arbeitskräfte von morgen in neuen Technologien rund um die 3 Wasserstoffisotope #Protium, #Deuterium und #Tritium auszubilden. Diese kommen u.a. in der #Kernfusion, bei der #Arzneistoffentwicklung und zur Herstellung von #Handydisplays zum Einsatz:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/graduiertenkolleg-123h-millionenfoerderung-durch-dfg-2025-12-15 -
Die @dfg_public verlängert die Förderung des #Graduiertenkollegs #Wasserstoffisotope ¹²³H um weitere 4,5 Jahre in Höhe von ca. 5,5 Mio. Euro. Ziel des Kollegs ist es, Arbeitskräfte von morgen in neuen Technologien rund um die 3 Wasserstoffisotope #Protium, #Deuterium und #Tritium auszubilden. Diese kommen u.a. in der #Kernfusion, bei der #Arzneistoffentwicklung und zur Herstellung von #Handydisplays zum Einsatz:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/graduiertenkolleg-123h-millionenfoerderung-durch-dfg-2025-12-15 -
Groundwater Dominates Snowmelt Runoff And Controls Streamflow Efficiency In The Western United States
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02303-3 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #fedscience #climatechange #snowmelt #waterresources #watersupply #management #planning #watersecurity #USWest #Rockies #snow #winter #mountain #catchment #dating #tritium #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #runoff #streamflow #infiltration #model #modeling #geology #geomorphology #groundwater #storage #surfacewater #streamwater #precipitation #bedrock #soils #sediments #permability #porosity #watershed #subsurfaceflow #storage #climate #future #landscape -
High tide for #Holtec
#Tritium dumped into #CapeCodBay will wash back onto community shores, says a new report
"The permanently closed Pilgrim nuclear power plant is now owned by Holtec, which wants to dump #RadioactiveWastewater into Cape Cod Bay. While waiting for a permit, so far denied, the company is quietly venting #tritium into the air."
by Linda Pentz Gunter, Posted on December 29, 2024
"Holtec, the company that has purchased a number of permanently closed #nuclear reactors in order to decommission them, has encountered yet another obstacle to its '#dilution is the solution to pollution' plans.
"One of the reactor sites Holtec has taken over is #PilgrimNuclearPlant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Cape Cod Bay, which closed permanently in 2019. Holtec’s not-so-little problem there is what do with what started out as at least 1.1 million gallons of radioactively contaminated #wastewater stored at the site.
"The company first suggested it would simply release the wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, assuring residents and the immediately alarmed fishing community not to worry because (a) the wastewater isn’t dangerous anyway (b) everyone does this all the time at reactor sites and no one has gotten sick so far and (c) it would quickly disperse into the wider ocean. Holtec chose this disposal method for one reason alone: it is the cheapest.
"The proposal was vigorously fought by citizens, the state, and powerful Massachusetts Democrat, Senator Ed Markey. The state of Massachusetts effectively banned the discharge option, a decision Holtec is contesting.
"That Final Determination to Deny Application to Modify a Massachusetts Permit to Discharge Pollutants to Surface Waters was issued by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection [#MassDEP] Division of Watershed Management on July 18, 2024. A month later, Holtec launched its appeal to reverse the decision, something that could take months or longer to find its way to court.
"In the meantime, help has come from a new quarter in the form of an in-depth study by the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [#WHOI], also, as it happens, based on the Massachusetts shoreline, near Falmouth.
"The study — Model-Based Study of Near-Surface Transport in and around Cape Cod Bay, Its Seasonal Variability, and Response to Wind — found that contrary to Holtec’s claims, the wastewater would not immediately disperse into the ocean, but would linger potentially for months, and wash up on the shores of area communities.
“'We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still low, probability of some of the plume exiting the Bay in spring and summer,' said Woods Hole study leader and physical oceanographer, Irina Rypina.
"The radioactively contaminated wastewater stored at Pilgrim is contaminated with what Holtec and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have described as 'four gamma emitters — #Manganese54, #Cobalt60, #Zinc65 and #Cesium137 along with #Tritium, a beta radiation emitter'.
"While the Woods Hole Study did not look at the health outcomes of releasing the radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay — only at the plume pathway — there are plenty of data that demonstrate the harmful effects of these #radioisotopes on human health, especially women and children.
"After acquiring the Pilgrim reactor, Holtec’s President and CEO, Kris Singh, assured surrounding communities that,
'the decommissioning of Pilgrim will replicate the superb record of public health and safety and environmental protection that typified the plant’s 47 years of operations.'But since that acquisition, Markey observed, 'Holtec has fallen woefully short on this commitment.' He noted of the Woods Hole report that 'In light of these recent findings, I urge Holtec to develop a wastewater discharge plan that is informed and guided by scientific fact and community input.'
"Long-time #PilgrimWatch activist, #MaryLampert, welcomed the report’s initial findings and said that 'Holtec dumping Pilgrim’s radiological and chemically #contaminated wastewater into semi-enclosed CapeCod Bay is harmful to human health, the environment, and our marine economy.'
"In a handbook explaining Pilgrim’s decommissioning process on the Pilgrim Watch website, the authors note that 'Cape Cod Bay, #PlymouthBay, #DuxburyBay, and #KingstonBay are all protected #OceanSanctuaries. Cape Cod Bay is a critical habitat for right whales and other endangered or special species. Dumping this #radioactive and chemically contaminated wastewater into them would cause incalculable economic damage and would harm both the environment and public health.'
"Absent a liquid discharge permit, Holtec’s preferred solution since has been to quietly evaporate the wastewater into the air. It has done this, as revealed during a Pilgrim Nuclear Decommissioning Citizen Advisory Panel meeting, by installing submerged electric heaters to increase the plant’s ambient temperature, ostensibly in order to improve worker comfort and expedite the drying of plant components.
"But, as Markey noted in an April 30, 2024 letter to Singh, the consequence of installing the heaters in that location 'is an increased rate of wastewater evaporation above the pace at which it occurs naturally.' That 1.1 million gallons is now down to 880,000 gallons remain, according to Holtec’s own reports.
"As Lampert points out, 'Meteorology studies show 60% of winds blow offshore,' which means at least some of that evaporated wastewater is going to fall into the bay anyway.
"Under Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, Holtec has four disposal options: liquid discharge, evaporation, storage onsite, and shipping to a licensed facility. None of them are good solutions.
"In August, Holtec filed an appeal against the state’s ban on liquid radioactive discharges, in part claiming that the decision on whether or not to allow the discharge falls under federal not state jurisdiction.
"This, argue some opponents of Holtec’s discharge plans, is a stall and a distraction while it quietly gets on with the gradual evaporation of all the wastewater.
"'They’re using the appeal to buy themselves time,' Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, told radio station WBUR. 'And what they buy themselves, with time, is the ability to continue to induce evaporation of the wastewater, so that ultimately it’s gone, at minimal cost to them.'
"Lampert agrees. 'Holtec can evaporate all the water to meet its schedule to dismantle the reactor building,' she said.
"In October, Lampert, along with other citizens representing the fishing, environmental, real estate and medical communities traveled to Boston to meet with staff in Massachusetts Governor Mary Healy’s office to demand that Healy’s administration call a halt to the evaporation.
"'There are laws on the books already that prohibit #AirbornePollution,' Diane Turco of #CapeDownwinders told the local NPR station after the Boston meeting. “And we’re asking our governor to immediately enforce those laws… She’s been very strong about no dumping in the bay. And we see this as a parallel assault on our communities,' Turco said.
"So far the governor has not taken action."
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2024/12/29/high-tide-for-holtec/
#HoltecLies #PilgrimNuclear #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoRadioactiveDumping #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #RadioactiveWaterDumping #NewEngland #BeyondNuclearInternational -
August 2023:
Explainer | Why do many scientists oppose #Fukushima #radioactive waste discharge?
The release of treated waste water from the #NuclearPlant has begun, despite concerns from major scientific organisations
IAEA is monitoring the operation but many experts are questioning the amount of data being collected
by Victoria Bela
Published: 2:05pm, 30 Aug 2023"Japan’s decision to start releasing around 30 years’ worth of treated radioactive waste into the #PacificOcean on #August24 has drawn criticism from some countries, including China, as well as some of the world’s leading scientific organisations.
"The plan to deal with the 1.3 million tonnes of contaminated water accumulated since the #FukushimaDaiichi #NuclearPowerPlant meltdown in 2011 includes removing most of the radioactive chemicals before it is discharged into the ocean.
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"However, the ALPS has been shown to be unsuccessful in filtering out the other 62 radioactive chemicals present in the waste water, according to data from the Japanese ministry for economy, trade and industry (#METI).
"According to METI, around 70 per cent of ALPS-treated water still contained #radioactive substances other than #tritium by the end of 2020, and needed to be #repurified.
"The US-based National Association of Marine Laboratories (#NAML), which represents more than 100 labs, released a position paper in December 2022 [link in comments] that firmly opposed Japan’s plan over 'a lack of adequate and accurate scientific data' about its safety.
"NAML members include some of the world’s most influential marine research institutes, including the #ScrippsInstitution of #Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego."
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife
#IAEAHides #TEPCOLies
#FukushimaIsntOver
#NoDumping #NuclearPowerPlants #RadioactiveWater #RethinkNotRestart #PacificOcean #DataFalsification #ALPSSystem