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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Jun Koarashi, Takao Iida, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh, Hiromi Yamazawa, Hikaru Amano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 464-469
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22632
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Numerical models for simulating tritiated water (HTO) transport in unsaturated soil were developed to assess the migration of HTO from contaminated groundwater to terrestrial biosphere. Column experiments using sandy soil and deuterated water (D2O) were performed and a scenario of HTO transport from contaminated aquifer to atmosphere through an unsaturated soil zone was investigated. The results obtained by both model calculations and column experiments indicated that hydraulic conductivity of soil is an important soil parameter characterizing D2O transport speed and that dispersion and advection are dominant elemental transport processes in unsaturated soil.
