3 ms·
TLDR; Water is slightly more radioactive than natural, every nuclear plant does this, its normal behavior, and safe since its such a low amount of radioactivity
by tekla 4y ago
TLDR; Water is slightly more radioactive than natural, every nuclear plant does this, its normal behavior, and safe since its such a low amount of radioactivity.
- wyuenho 4y ago"low" after some 20 years or so of decay. But yes, you are correct.
- krisoft 4y agoWell, we don’t know because the article doesn’t make an attempt to quantify the level of radioactivity. So we are left with our imagination. We have really good analytics. That water, based on the description of the article can be anywhere between “would be legal as tap water” to “kills anything on contact”.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoFor the public, radioactivity is a boolean. Something is either not radioactive, or it's radioactive and will melt your face and/or turn you into a cronenberg. In practice, almost everything is radioactive to some degree. This is always handy to show people who don't get this: https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/
- paulcole 4y agoAlso 1M gallons isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things. An Olympic pool is 660,000 gallons.