RosRAO Rosa Tom’s subsidiary specializing in the management of radioactive waste. It has chance to help Japan to clean Fukushima’s radioactive waste. There are currently about 800 000 cubic meters of waste that needs to be purified, according to the IAEA, which not long ago inspected plant. The radioactive water at Fukushima is one of the most complex problems in the short term. The International Atomic Energy Agency experts require the water to be purified of tritium before it ends up in the ocean. Currently, the tritium concentration many times greater than the norm, according to WHO.
Japanese specialists in Fukushima is currently testing a water purification system for the water used to cool the reactors. The system is efficient system against 62 radioactive substances, but not of tritium. The young Russian scientist Sergei Florja has told Sputnik on the Russian technology advantages:
Our system removes more radioactive material than our competitors’ technology. After purification, the remains of the radioactive waste almost exclusively distilled water, which, however, contains a certain amount of tritium. Our task is to develop a facility that collects the tritium for final disposal. There are already suitable technique, such as rectification and catalytic isotope exchange. Our method involves an optimal combination of these techniques.
Each participant in the tender process has received $ 9.6 million by the Japanese government to create a demonstration project. In RosRAO work is already underway. Aleksandr Bogutskij , Director of RosRAO Northwest:
You create a demonstration plant in the scale of 1: 100 to display art legitimacy and effectiveness. The legitimacy means that the installation actually perform their uppgiter, that is, treatment of waste water from tritium and collects it for disposal. A prototype is manufactured in the second half.
The three companies will present their prototypes for Japan by March 2016. In case the prototype works well, the Russian carrier to claim on producing a large industrial plant Fukushima.
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