Mike Williams reports that researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract radioactivity from water and said their discovery could help purify the hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated water stored after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident (Fact Check: This was an incident caused by the 2011 tsunami, which caused damage to the reactors. No one was killed or irradiated).
They reported that their oxidatively modified carbon (OMC) material is inexpensive and highly efficient at absorbing radioactive metal cations, including cesium and strontium, toxic elements released into the environment when two reactors at the Fukushima plant were damaged exposing the cores.
C-seal F, a source used to synthesize oxidatively modified carbon. The material is highly effective at removing radionuclides from water, according to researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University. OMC can easily trap common radioactive elements found in water floods from oil extraction, such as uranium, thorium and radium, said Rice chemist James Tour, who led the project with Ayrat Dimiev, a former postdoctoral researcher in his lab and now a research professor at Kazan Federal University.
The material makes good use of the porous nature of two specific sources of carbon, Tour said. One is an inexpensive, coke-derived powder known as C-seal F, used by the oil industry as an additive to drilling fluids. The other is a naturally occurring, carbon-heavy mineral called shungite found mainly in Russia.
Re Fukushima, for further information, see: http://bit.ly/2juLL4d
For a more complete coverage of the Fukushima incident, see: http://bit.ly/2qJ4K07
and http://bit.ly/2rpoU1N, among many other sources that eliminate the misinformation in other biased reports.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
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