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2023-07-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Fukushima Radioactive Water Into Pacific Ocean Will Be Safe: IAEA

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Posted by Bobby 2023-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Before we go bugnutz ....(Wiki):
"... Beta particles from tritium can penetrate only about 6.0 millimetres (0.24 in) of air, and they are incapable of passing through the dead outermost layer of human skin." a Beta particle is a fast moving electron, normally these would produce X-rays but...
"...The low energy of tritium's radiation makes it difficult to detect tritium-labeled compounds except by using liquid scintillation counting." Really, really slow (for fission products) electrons.
...And Tritium has a 12 year half-life so it isn't going to stay in the environment very long. And finally, dosage is the question and there is a lot of water in the Pacific Ocean to dilute it in.

I would be much more concerned about what chemicals the CCP's industrial plants are dumping in the their rivers that end up in the oceans.

Posted by magpie 2023-07-06 00:23|| 2023-07-06 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "Don't drink more than 67 Liters of Seawater per day"

Posted by Frank G 2023-07-06 06:36|| 2023-07-06 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Straight to San Francisco

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-06 06:56|| 2023-07-06 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Tritium is used with phosphorus in self-powered lighting devices which are used for night illumination of firearm sights, watches, exit signs, map lights, navigational compasses, etc.
...and glowing bong water

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-06 06:58|| 2023-07-06 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Banana equivalent dose

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-06 07:07|| 2023-07-06 07:07|| Front Page Top

#6 “He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

Oh no. There goes Tokyo….”

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-06 12:39|| 2023-07-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

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