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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, Yoon is right on this. Tritium is a very, very low level beta-emitter, and at the concentrations they're releasing (less than 1500 Bq/L, ~4E-8 Ci/L), drinking nothing but water contaminated at that level for an entire year would yield a dose of less than 4 mrem (based on the NRC math that 60,900 pCi/L for a year yields a dose of 4mrem). For context, 4 mrem (40 μSv) is the amount of exposure you receive in a flight from NYC to LA. That is damn near a rounding error on the average yearly exposure to members of the public.

But people gotta be scared because Joe Public doesn't really understand radiation, and fear sells.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Japan also literally dug a giant cave under the sea bed they are slowly draining the water into very slowly. It literally will have no contact with sea life. All of this fear mongering is incredibly stupid, and demonstrates that it doesn't matter how much effort you go through to do something safely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Oh what this water isn't even being released into the ocean?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Get out of here with that math proving that the amount of radiation is negligible!