The idea is that the strontium-90, carbon-14, etc can be filtered out, leaving j...

pera · on April 28, 2022

According to the article I cited:

> Greenpeace said it had confirmed with Tepco that the system was not designed to remove carbon-14

Maybe there are updates on this matter but I couldn't find anything online.

Reason077 · on April 28, 2022

Sounds like you're right about the carbon-14:

"C-14 also cannot be removed by ALPS, but its concentration is far lower than its regulatory standard for discharge."

tablespoon · on April 28, 2022

Is the carbon-14 an actual health concern, or just a PITA for future archeologists?

gus_massa · on April 28, 2022

Nitpicking: The archeologist already have tables to fix variations of the C_14 vs C_12 in the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_calibration

xyzzy21 · on April 28, 2022

Except if you consider the "entropy" of doing that, you have an enormous amount of energy inputs required.