The broke Fukushima power plants reportedly require 100,000 gallons of water daily that becomes contaminated and radioactive. The water is hot and stored in tanks and may be so for years. If storage is a problem what about loading it on a supertanker and shipping it for water treatment somewhere like the American Southwest for evaporation in a Mexican border canal specially designed for collecting salty water residue and making fresh water from evaporation? The Japanese might be interested in making a financial contribution to the project and the U.S. southwest has droughts that may increase and could use fresh water made from salt water with or without radioactive waste in it?
Large public works projects used to be the American thing. I lived in the Columbia Basin long ago and learned of the Grand Coulee dam project and it's value for farm irrigation. The Southwest could use a new water-making technology to supply farms too, especially if global warming changes the weather patterns and dries up the southwest. If a future nuclear accident occurs it may be necessary to process water one more time. It can be useful to be prepared for radioactive waste water treatment
Evaporation and condensation in covered canals with fresh water separated from the salt and radiation (if that is technically possible) could process the Fukushima water and augment that with water pumped up from San Diego to New Mexico in a pipe using solar power. What to do about radioactive waste if it can be seperated and collected in salt sludge?
Maybe salt sludge can be recrystalized under mechanical pressure and formed into a shape useful for packing deep in an excavated salt dome-just a thought.
Large public works projects used to be the American thing. I lived in the Columbia Basin long ago and learned of the Grand Coulee dam project and it's value for farm irrigation. The Southwest could use a new water-making technology to supply farms too, especially if global warming changes the weather patterns and dries up the southwest. If a future nuclear accident occurs it may be necessary to process water one more time. It can be useful to be prepared for radioactive waste water treatment
Evaporation and condensation in covered canals with fresh water separated from the salt and radiation (if that is technically possible) could process the Fukushima water and augment that with water pumped up from San Diego to New Mexico in a pipe using solar power. What to do about radioactive waste if it can be seperated and collected in salt sludge?
Maybe salt sludge can be recrystalized under mechanical pressure and formed into a shape useful for packing deep in an excavated salt dome-just a thought.
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