US Nuclear Proposes Automated Tritium Monitoring System to TEPCO for Huge Fukushima Tank Water Release Program Other OTC:UCLE

Los Angeles, California, April 7, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – via NewMediaWire – The US Nuclear Corp. (OTCQB: UCLE) Tokyo Electric has now proposed their unique automated, continuous and highly sensitive tritium-in-water monitoring system to Power Company (TEPCO) for the massive project to monitor the safe release of the radioactive / contaminated water that occurred in the Fukushima nuclear disaster is saved. Currently, more than 1,000 storage tanks in Fukushima hold an astonishing 1.24 million tons of water with radioactive tritium – and the storage capacity of 1.37 million tons will be full by 2022. Japan intends to finalize plans and begin releasing water before they run out of time. US Nuclear believes that their tritium water monitors are an effective method of continuously monitoring the release of tank water and seawater in the area to ensure that the tritium concentration is safe and does not pose a hazard.

On March 11, 2011, a rare and powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake was detected at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which automatically shut down the reactor and started emergency diesel generators to drive the pumps that would further cool the fission reactor. Unfortunately, a 14-meter-high tsunami came soon after, which swept slightly over the dam, flooding the facility and emergency power generators, causing pumps and cooling to fail, resulting in three core meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination . In the decade since the disaster, cooling water has spilled from the primary containment vessels into the basements of the reactor buildings and new water is pumped into the reactors to cool the molten fuel. The cooling water is treated with an advanced filtration system to remove most of the contaminants. Unfortunately, it cannot remove the tritium contamination, which is why the water has been stored in tanks.

Japan’s current plan is to slowly release and dilute the tritium-contaminated water into the sea, although this plan has been received with caution by both the local fishing industry and other nearby countries. Determined to resolve the issue in a safe and effective manner, Japan recently reached out to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on March 23, 2021 for help in verifying the safe release of the contaminated water.

To help TEPCO effectively monitor the release of the water, US Nuclear recently proposed its revolutionary Trimaran-H2O, an automated, continuous fresh or seawater monitoring system that measures tritium in water up to 500 Bq / L (14,000) pCi / L) below the US EPA’s drinking water limit of 740 Bq / L or 20,000 pCi / L. With the exception of US Nuclear, there is no other automated, continuous and real-time tritium in water monitors on the market that, due to the Complexity of measuring tritium in water below the safe drinking water limits for tritium can measure. US Nuclear’s Trimaran-H2O model uses an electrolyte separator and special sample enrichment function to iteratively concentrate the tritium and enable measurements at the highest level not possible in other devices. In addition, the system uses gas proportional counting technology, which is just as sensitive as conventional laboratory liquid scintillation counting techniques, but does not generate hazardous mixed waste or require expensive scintillation cocktails.

It is predicted that it could take 30 to 40 years for all of Fukushima storage tank water to be safely released.

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