Debate heats up over how to dispose of Indian Point radioactive water (gothamist.com)

submitted 6 months ago by CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to c/nuclear@sh.itjust.works

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Just build a replacement nuclear power plant and reuse the water. Right?

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[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Is it actually radioactive water, or is it just water a nuclear power plant used for some purpose and now people think it's radioactive?

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Apparently its 1.3 million gallons of water, which includes tritiated water, so yeah this is more fallout from anit-nuke propaganda...

[-] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I have a sneaking suspicion this is another situation where the tritiated water is actually a lower concentration than the river, but because we know about the phenomenally low levels, people are afraid of the nuclear boogeyman. In reality, I'll bet that the overall tritium concentration in the river would go down as a result of discharging those 1.3 million gallons of water into it.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

They dumped into the Hudson for years during operation, leaving it onsite to leak undiluted into ground water is a far far worse Idea.

[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 6 months ago

Whatever it is it's perfectly good water for a nuclear power plant and we need a replacement for Indian Point anyway. Sending it down the Hudson is just a waste.