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Surprisingly, it's a lot more radioactive than the bananas. Pure tritium is 3.57×10^14 Bq/g [0] It's being diluted at a ratio of 4x10^11 : 1 so the diluted mi
by dmurray 5y ago
Surprisingly, it's a lot more radioactive than the bananas.
Pure tritium is 3.57×10^14 Bq/g [0]
It's being diluted at a ratio of 4x10^11 : 1 so the diluted mixture still has 1000 Bq/g, or four orders of magnitude stronger than the equivalent mass in bananas.
Of course, it gets diluted more after you release it into the ocean, but it would take a lot of mixing to get the water down only to banana levels.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
- belorn 5y agoVery interesting. Looking at those numbers, potassium-40 has 32 bg/g. Does that mean that atoms of tritium gives out 10^13 more energy every second compared to potassium-40? It would be funny to see how long a city could survive on just then 1 gram of tritium, and it does give a bit more context to the idea of running a city on potassium-40.
- dmurray 5y agoPotassium atoms are bigger, so I think it's only 10^12 if you want to compare per-atom, but yes.