BBC News - Fukushima nuclear disaster: Japan to release treated water in 48 hours
Do they want Godzilla, cause I suspect this might be how you get Godzilla…
The material will be familiar to anyone who has read all 500 posts in this thread, but you might have relatives/friends who aren’t aware how much of an existential threat nukes are to our survival.
Goddamn I love that movie.
From Wikepedia:
UF6:
Boiling point - 56.5 °C (133.7 °F; 329.6 K) (sublimes, at atmospheric pressure)
Not a gas.
I’m not across the nuclear fuel cycle. Is UF6 feedstock to centrifuges?
I’m sure it’ll be fine! Why are you so hysterical! It’s just nuclear… stuff! /s
That would depend on how exactly it is stored, temperature/pressure-wise.
However, I would expect it to be stored in solid form in something like a type 48 F oder 48 Y(d) UF6 container.
The author might have been confused a bit because UF6 is commonly used in its gaseous form in centrifuges.
Anyway, you want to keep this stuff dryer than a Gremlin:
This is mostly about depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6), but storage and transport is the same:
https://www.energy.gov/pppo/listings/duf6-news
Yup. Speaking as a chemical engineer: HF scares the fuck out of me, and wherever possible I will shamelessly stay offsite while it’s in use.
No worries. Its corrosive and toxic properties will get you way before the radiation possibly could.
You may have lead with that. I’m all for redundancy, but something, something, preaching to the choir…
Anyway, my two takeaways from a summer job at the local paint factory were
a) when the old hands that usually handle stuff in a casual and cavalier way all of a sudden get serious and put on ALL the safety gear and triple-check everything, that stuff is really nasty and
b) yes, my future is in civil engineering.
I was surprised I couldn’t find it in Lowe’s Things I won’t work with.
I may have missed it or it could simply be because at least one of the chemicals needed to produce the stuff is on his list.
Lowe’s list has some very exotic things on it that make HF look delightful and forgiving.
And of course, I found out about Lowe through xkcd.
