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"spewing ... into the Pacific" actually dilutes it more than when it existed in ore in the first place. It had to be concentrated by orders of magnitude from or
by spfzero 6y ago
"spewing ... into the Pacific" actually dilutes it more than when it existed in ore in the first place. It had to be concentrated by orders of magnitude from ore, to make it radioactive enough to be fuel for a reactor. Before that, it was just backround that we've lived happily with for eons, and in the Pacific it is even lower level.
- stephenr 6y agoThe plant operators measured 7.5M times the legal limit of radioactive iodine in the seawater. Complete dilution is not a given, and expecting zero consequences to marine life (and anything that then feeds on marine life) is optimistic at best.
- raxxorrax 6y agobecause there is a lot of water on the planet? Or a hungry fish will introduce it into the food chain before it has dissolved completely homogeneously into the wide oceans of the earth.