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FBaggins

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6. There's a more relevant calculation in this case.

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 09:53 AM

Sep 2013

The amount of water isn't particularly relevant. Plenty of gullible/ignorant people see 300 tons of contaminated water as a bigger deal than one liter of water containing the same amount of activity.

The water that was released was measured at 24 Bq/L (below even drinking water standards). So if 1,000 tons were "dumped" (really just rainwater released exactly as the system was designed to do)... then that's one million liters... or 24 million Bq.

By comparison, a single self-illuminated exit sign contains 1-2 Trillion Bq of tritium. Tens of thousands of times as much activity. Heck... few people wear wrist watches these days, but the limit for those glowing watch faces was almost a million Bq. Would "dumping" a couple dozen wristwatches into the sea really warrant international news attention?

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