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Originally Posted by freedogger
Reverse osmosis filtration is the only thing that gets rid of most radioactive elements in water. From what I have read on the web, activated carbon filters will work until they reach their load capacity. Not going to happen any time soon at a municipal level.
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Different methods are used to remove different elements. ONE method is reverse osmosis but it is not the only method nor is it typically a method that is used on its own. Treating the water at Fukushima right now involves 4 different companies doing multiple things in series. One of those steps is indeed revers osmosis but not before the cesium and iodine are removed through other methods.
Here's a little article on using rads, rems, beq, etc...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/e...vity-0328.html