Development of Novel Technology for Removing and Recovering Cesium from Cesium-Contaminated Water
As the recovery effort from the Great East Japan Earthquake goes into its 9 month we are no where closer to feeling 100% safe about what we eat and drink thanks to our overly sized and mismanaged central government, with tones of promises before taking powers and many apologies for not delivering them afterward. My heart and sole for all the people in that region as well as all the descent local authority that have been effect by combination of natural and manmade disaster. Major companies in Japan however where instrumental in bringing this crises under some sort of visible control by addressing existing major issues such as cleaning up the sea water so fishing industry around the Tohoku region can once for all resume their normal life style. Ones such company is JNC corporation that has succeeded in developing a novel technology capable of removing and recovering cesium (stable isotope) in a laboratory scale for cesium-contaminated water including seawater. Read more
Development of Fuel Cell Using Sewage Digester Gas by Fuji Electric
This alternative source of energy may not fill the big shoes of nuclear power plant power generation capability but it would certainly provide a descent back up electrical generation system. Fuji Electric has demonstrated and tested a new fuel cell that utilizes sewage digester gas in generating electricity, yes; you heard it right, sewage digester gas. It may sound nasty and smelly and it may not be labeled as a clean energy form but it does not have any nuclear rod with multiple half-life time which we have been hearing recently from our officials regarding to damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors. Read more
