Re: [tlug] Measuring radioactivity at TEPCO Fukushima plant

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 20 March 2011 05:43, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:

> Do water filters remove iodine, and if so would that be enough?

Ironically, it seems that iodine is often used to *purify* water:

http://www.google.se/search?ie=UTF-8&q=water+filter+iodine

Looks like activated carbon will get it done:

"Activated carbon does adsorb iodine very well and in fact the iodine
number, mg/g, (ASTM D28 Standard Method test) is used as an indication
of total surface area."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#Properties)

http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/water/iodine/iodine-and-water.htm

And it looks like Brita filters contained activated carbon:

http://www.brita.net/uk/faqs_household.html?L=1#24

Cheers,
Josh