I was curious how much radionuclides are in the water. Apparently, "nuclear plants typically release between a few curies and one thousand curies per year of tr

I was curious how much radionuclides are in the water. Apparently, "nuclear plants typically release between a few curies and one thousand curies per year of tritium in liquid effluents; releases of mixed fission and activation products are much smaller (in the range from 0.001 to 0.01 curies per year)."[1] For comparison, it seems a glowing tritium keyring contains 0.4 curies.[2] One thousand curies would be 0.104 grams of tritium. Also, there is an online database for this! [3] E.g., if I read it correctly, in 2008, Indian Point 1,2 released 0.09 Ci of liquid effluvents. (No tritium in the table?) [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201991/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201991/ [2] http://depletedcranium.com/my-attempt-to-import-tritium-key-chains/ http://depletedcranium.com/my-attempt-to-import-tritium-key-... [3] http://www.reirs.com/effluent/EDB_Main.asp?l=n http://www.reirs.com/effluent/EDB_Main.asp?l=n