Biofuel Industry Will Help Clean Up Chernobyl Site

Many different methods have been used to clean up the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, but I never thought harvesting biomass crops would be one of them. Apparently, the Belarus government believes that harvesting biomass crops repeatedly on the disaster site will eventually remove radionuclides from the soil.

If the plan works, radioactive contamination could be removed from 50,000 square km of land in 20 to 40 years— an encouraging timeline considering it will otherwise take centuries for radionuclides to disappear.

Greenfield Project Management is spearheading the project with a multi-fuels refinery that will produce ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, and electricity. The fuels will initially use feedstocks from clean lands, but the facilities will begin using crops from contaminated areas after safety checks and field trials.

The planning phase of the project will finish next year, and the refinery will begin production in 2010.

While the thought of using contaminated feedstocks makes me uneasy (despite safety assurances), this is great news for the Chernobyl area, which has been afflicted with radioactivity for far too long.

Vaughn_nebeker

the year that vaughn & wendy wood tryed to recinseal there defrances. vaughn had made a $747.00 off the smith hydread corn. one acre.
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The smith hybread corn dose a 157 buddel’s of corn per acre. 25% storige,35%farm use,40%sale of eathanall.
One can not eat readio active corn. But there no rull on using it as a fule. corn put a side. the stock is ground for bio-mass for the dtill. files D10:D15:D20:D50 fules.
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Herman

The problem with the ‘cultivation for food’ cycle which applies in parts of the contaminated 50,000 square kilometres is this: while some crops may be relatively safe for human and animal use, the waste such as straw, which contains the radionuclides, is dumped back on the land, and removing and disposing of it is unbelievably costly.

The idea here is to substitute ‘cultivation for biofuels’. Doing this would use all parts of the plants as feedstock. With a four-fuel plant, including burning the final waste to generate heat and electricity, a small amount of low to medium level waste would remain for safe disposal rather than being dumped back on the land.

In effect, the profits of a commercial biofuels sector would pay most of the costs of decontamination. The Belarus Academy of Sciences and several international agencies and research institutes have already demonstrated on a small scale that this concept could work.

And for the fearful out there: existing technologies for scrubbing effluents of radioactivity is widely used and can be easily applied in this scenario. There will be none in the final product, and none will escape into air or water — which does happen at present in the limited cultivation in the contaminated zone.
Herman

The problem with the ‘cultivation for food’ cycle which applies in parts of the contaminated 50,000 square kilometres is this: while some crops may be relatively safe for human and animal use, the waste such as straw, which contains the radionuclides, is dumped back on the land, and removing and disposing of it is unbelievably costly.

The idea here is to substitute ‘cultivation for biofuels’. Doing this would use all parts of the plants as feedstock. With a four-fuel plant, including burning the final waste to generate heat and electricity, a small amount of low to medium level waste would remain for safe disposal rather than being dumped back on the land.

In effect, the profits of a commercial biofuels sector would pay most of the costs of decontamination. The Belarus Academy of Sciences and several international agencies and research institutes have already demonstrated on a small scale that this concept could work.

And for the fearful out there: existing technologies for scrubbing effluents of radioactivity is widely used and can be easily applied in this scenario. There will be none in the final product, and none will escape into air or water — which does happen at present in the limited cultivation in the contaminated zone.
http://writertotheworld.com Writer to the World

I’m just wondering if the use of these fuels would release radioactive isotopes much like what’s carried away in the steam of a nuclear reactor.

Instinctively it seems to make sense though. I’ll be really interested in hearing how this works out.
http://writertotheworld.com Writer to the World

I’m just wondering if the use of these fuels would release radioactive isotopes much like what’s carried away in the steam of a nuclear reactor.

Instinctively it seems to make sense though. I’ll be really interested in hearing how this works out.
http://www.progettohumus.it Dany

The real problems of Chernobyl area are the radionuclides in the food.

People eat local contaminated food and vegetables.

I think that this project dont resolve the problem of the population of radioactive areas.
http://www.progettohumus.it Dany

The real problems of Chernobyl area are the radionuclides in the food.

People eat local contaminated food and vegetables.

I think that this project dont resolve the problem of the population of radioactive areas.
KinOfCain

Wouldn’t that just suck the radionuclides up into the feedstock, from where they would be distributed, via cars, throughout the earth?

It’s more or less just like when you were a kid, spreading the mashed potatoes around on your plate to make it look like you ate your dinner.
KinOfCain

Wouldn’t that just suck the radionuclides up into the feedstock, from where they would be distributed, via cars, throughout the earth?

It’s more or less just like when you were a kid, spreading the mashed potatoes around on your plate to make it look like you ate your dinner.
http://www.chaosgone.blogspot.com chaosgone

That’s a great idea. I hope it works.
http://www.chaosgone.blogspot.com chaosgone

That’s a great idea. I hope it works.