SERIOUS QUESTION. ... Does a water filter remove radiation from water?

Radiation:

Radiowaves
Microwaves
Lightwaves
Heatwaves (Heat)
X-Rays
Gamma Rays

All the same - just different vibrational rates (Frequencies Wavelengths)

The sun gives off Radiation (light and a whole lot more)

You CANNOT Filter with a water filter

USE YOUR BRAIN if you have one.

Please distinguish between dangerous ionizing radiation (x-rays, beta, gamma ) and non-ionizing radiation (radiowaves, microwaves, light).

except that radiation is caused by particles which can be filtered


you need to use your brain

Bleach is great for bacteria but won't touch radioactive particles...please see bold up above, I clearly stated for bacteria :)

Last Edited by TrixieMama on 03/29/2011 05:48 PM

There is a system in the works and will be on the market called ISO HOTT TRAP Made by Loprest Water Treatment company in CA. www.loprest.com they said they would post this new product in 7 days from today.

radiation removes water filters

Radiation that we are worried about is not 'free floating' radiation, it is being emitted by particulate matter that is radioactive.

Thus it depends on the filter type, what size particles is filters out and the size of the particulate matter.

Activated Charcoal will remove most of the particulate matter. Mind the more charcoal the water percolates through the less impurities one gets on the far end.

One can use non-activated charcoal, The process of making charcoal is to burn it with low oxygen, so the material smolders, but doesn't produce a flame. It used be be cone by burying a pile of wood under soil, then setting the wood on fire and keeping the soil over the wood from cracking open. In a few days time the wood would burn into charred black remnants.

Such material can be used to filter water. If you break it up and partially grind it, place it over a layer of clean sand. Let water run over the charcoal, through it and through the sand the end product is clean water.

Thanks, Dr. House. :)

Your advice is much appreciated.

Hey Anonymous Coward. What are you doing here? I usually see your comments pertaining to amateur wrestling. Well, I too would like to find out if one can somehow get radio active particles out of contaminated water. It seems like most of our water is going to end up contaminated the way things are going. My family owns a water source that comes from an aquifer that is underground. I suppose that contaminated rainwater will filter down through hundreds of feet of soil to reach our water source. I don't suppose there is any way the soil is going to filter out the radio activity. It seems like once it is radio active it is almost part of the water itself. So what the hell do we drink?

But that presupposes that you will have an electricity supply. You can make a wood burning distillery.

As to weather they work or not, I don't know.

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I know someone who has a natural spring on their property.
I think I will start getting my drinking water from them.

The way I figure it, if a person can get water that has LESS radiation in it, then so much the better.

And if a filter will remove even SOME of the radioactive material from the drinking water, so much the better.


Thanks to everyone who participated in this discussion.

You took the words right out of my mouth.R/O's are expensive though.Mine was like $600.00[Merlin garden pro.]That's not to bad,but the filters are $330.00 every 3 months,that's without radiation.And it's only a 3 stage.

Filters every three months at $330 per time is pretty spendy for the average household.

Thanks for sharing that information, AC.

Distill your water and get powdered milk from another country!

Radiation particles are so tiny, there's really very little if anything that can be done.

Sounds to me like someone is trying to make some cash off this crisis. I find it difficult to see how a filter can be developed for atomic and sub-atomic particles, seriously.

I bought this "water generator" ... that produces water from the air ... with all the issues we are having about water, I thought this would come in handy ...

[link to www.ecoloblue.com]

water will not stay permanently contaminated. Reverse Osmosis will remove the tiny particulate that is radioactive. If you are still worried get a RO unit along with a de-ionizer and you will get everything out of the water

and this is a FACT directly from my chief scientist of the water company I own. He also told me that per capita, Japan citizen own more RO units than any other country so those people will be the lucky ones that can still drink their filtered tap water. Taking a shower or bath is another story unless you have an industrial sized home RO unit

ps RO=reverse osmosis

I was at the store the other day, buying boxes of powdered milk. I look around and think, what else should I buy?

I realized that everything is going to be contaminated with radiation. What to do? I can't buy a year's worth of everything! And even if I did, what about when that year is up?

All foodstuff will be contaminated with radiation for many, many years.



Needless to say, I didn't buy anything else. It is what it is. So be it.

You can filter radiated isotopes. Granulated Activated Carbon will remove a considerable amount of radioactive contamination. There are resins that remove more than carbon does. One resin selects for cesium and strontium. Others select for anionic and cationic isotopes. Radioactive iodine is filtered by both cation and anion resins and by activated carbon.....

See Wikipedia about how ionization can be used for decontamination......

This is similar to an earth filtration, but increases the selective filter materials to target the contaminants. So you can get much more decontamination quickly as the water flows through the filter materials.....

Available on or about April 25 from friendsofwater.com. Specialized cartridges are being built now. See [link to shop.friendsofwater.com]

Haven't you heard the news? Radiation is good for you!

Please stop posting your nonsense about an 'earth filter'. You dont know what youre talking about, you are obviously radiologically, scientifically and logically illiterate, yet for some reason you continue to provide and advocate false information. You, if you chose to open your yap and dispense garbage for advice, are responsible for misleading all those too stupid to know that you are leading them astray. There is nothing that will be filtered out in a bucket full of dirt, other than cleanliness, and definately not anything radioactive.

One of the problems with distilling is that iodine has a low boiling point - it turns into a gas at 184 Celsius. The little home distillers use high pressure for efficiency and if they are using over ~140 psi they will be vaporising the radioactive iodine along with the water.

A low pressure distiller like the type used for distilling alcohol won't boil off the iodine.

The radioactive steam has extra contamination of all different elements (some in tiny solid or liquid particles (smoke or smog)) because of the violence of the explosions/fires/whatever else.

I've decided I'm just going to continue buying filtered water from the health food store, and let the chips fall where they may.

do you live in socal?

Great thread ! Sounds like changing Brita filters more frequently will help ... activated charcoal

Not socal, thank God.

I'm in Oregon, which isn't much better as far as radiation goes.

Yes, reverse osmosis will remove small radioactive particles.