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> The amount of radiation in that water is utterly dwarfed by natural potassium. You can use your search engine of choice to find the graphic, you will laugh. N
by dathinab 6y ago
> The amount of radiation in that water is utterly dwarfed by natural potassium. You can use your search engine of choice to find the graphic, you will laugh. Negligible.
Only if you instantly perfectly mix all radioactive material with all the water in the ocean, which won't happen.
Dumping (liquid) radioactive wast into the sea is common practice and often allowed due to dilution, but there are very strong indices that people living close to the dump site (and potentially not that close) will have noticeable increased health risk. Because clearly (common sense) it takes time for a liquid to be diluted and until then it is in a unhealthy concentration.
Anyway this is a one-time dump so it's a bit different from continuously dumping smaller amounts over decades. (Which now that I think about it Fukushima might be doing since it's creation anyway...).
- ddingus 6y agoYeah, the core itself is likely to become part of the water cycle. What is the half life? Someone said it was half as radioactive after a decade. Maybe it can really be a one time dump.
- shoto_io 6y agoSecond answer includes: > If I’m completely honest, I’d be perfectly willing to drink a glass of the water they’re planning to dump. I’m not heading all the way to Japan for it, and I doubt they’d let me do it anyway, but I’d drink it. Make of that what you will.
- coldtea 6y agoConventiently, he wont. Those living nearby will, however.
- shoto_io 6y agoThese answers sound almost like they're fabricated...
- Danieru 6y agoOh no, those nearby better not drink the dumped water: it be deadly. The sea water I mean, not the radiation. If anything the current tanks of drinkable fresh radioactive water are being polluted by the deadly sea water from a drinking perspective.
- pjscott 6y agoClose; the half-life of tritium is 12.3 years, at which point it turns into stable helium-3.