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Unlike chemical contamination (e.g. mercury) radiation doesn't bio-accumulate. The seafood won't have higher radiation levels than the water (less than a banana
by adgjlsfhk1 6mo ago
Unlike chemical contamination (e.g. mercury) radiation doesn't bio-accumulate. The seafood won't have higher radiation levels than the water (less than a banana).
- baranul 6mo ago> Unlike chemical contamination (e.g. mercury) radiation doesn't bio-accumulate. That is a very, very misinformed or misleading statement. Caesium-137 and Strontium-90 have half lives of around 30 years and do get into seafood. There are warnings given out often about radioactive contaminated seafood. That's why Fukushima's radioactive water dumping was such a problem and neighboring countries had issues with it. Seafood can and does get radioactive contamination and this increases cancer risks in humans that consume it.