Sandia Labs Technology Used to Clean Up Fukushima After Disaster

submitted by Luis Kun

Homeland Security News Wire - May 30, 2012

A Sandia Lab-developed technology — crystalline silico-titanate, or CST — is a molecular sieve that can separate highly volatile elements from radioactive wastewater; the technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than forty-three million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than forty-three million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in seawater, which was pumped in to cool the plant’s towers.

“It’s the kind of thing that sends a chill,” said Mark Rigali, manager of the geochemistry group at Sandia.

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