Processing Nuclear Wastewater via Constraint Network Engineering: A Physical Scheme for Transforming Tritium from a Persistent Pollution Source into a Harmless Substance

The most intractable radioactive nuclide in nuclear wastewater is tritium (³H). Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen with a half-life of approximately 12.33 years. Its chemical behavior is completely identical to that of ordinary hydrogen, making it impossible to separate from water by any conventional chemical or physical filtration means. Existing treatment schemes—dilution discharge, evaporative concentration, and deep-well injection—all merely transfer tritium from one location to another rather than fundamentally eliminating its radioactivity. This paper, based on the constraint network dynamics of Energy Ontology, proposes an entirely new treatment scheme: using channel-closing technology to forcibly compress the atomic nucleus of tritium from the M→0⁺ narrow-channel state into the M=1 sealed state, thereby physically transforming it into stable helium-3 (³He). The channel closes, decay ceases, and tritium is no longer a radioactive source. Helium-3, as an inert gas, escapes from the water and can be collected and utilized. The treated water no longer contains radioactivity and can be safely discharged as ordinary water. Within the unified operational spectrum of Constraint Network Engineering, this scheme is the precise execution of forced-sealing locking on the tritium nucleus—sharing exactly the same physical core as the nuclear explosion termination paper, with the only difference being the scale of the operational target. This paper provides the engineering implementation path of a distributed memristor constraint network array, systematically benchmarks against existing publicly available experimental data, and presents predictions and verification protocols that can be safely tested in ground-based experiments.