According to this article it’s 8 million gallons in total. That would fill a cube 31.5 meters on each side.
The water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organization drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre. That’s before it’s diluted. So you could drink it straight from the tap, before it goes into the ocean at all, and you still won’t be exposed to higher amounts of radiation than is considered “acceptable.”
Since dumping it into the ocean isn’t going to make it more concentrated, the area of ocean water that will contain higher than acceptable amounts of radiation is exactly zero.
Thank you. I appreciate the response and data. I wonder what the difference in the WHO limit would be if, instead of being for drinking water, which enters and leaves your body the same day, it was for people to live 24/7 in a pool of water, as fish do. I imagine it would be a significantly lower number, but you’ve still done a lot to convince me this is safer than it sounds. Cheers!
Even if living in it 24/7 sucks for the fish, the exposure for a human that eats the fish is still transient - the tritium in the fish enters and leaves much like the water you’d drink does.
Glad to be providing helpful information. It’s easy for fears to magnify and spread, humans have a bias towards paying attention to danger because that’s really helpful in evolutionary terms when there could be a hungry leopard hiding in any bush.
According to this article it’s 8 million gallons in total. That would fill a cube 31.5 meters on each side.
The water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organization drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre. That’s before it’s diluted. So you could drink it straight from the tap, before it goes into the ocean at all, and you still won’t be exposed to higher amounts of radiation than is considered “acceptable.”
Since dumping it into the ocean isn’t going to make it more concentrated, the area of ocean water that will contain higher than acceptable amounts of radiation is exactly zero.
This whole thing is nothing but wild hysteria.
Thank you. I appreciate the response and data. I wonder what the difference in the WHO limit would be if, instead of being for drinking water, which enters and leaves your body the same day, it was for people to live 24/7 in a pool of water, as fish do. I imagine it would be a significantly lower number, but you’ve still done a lot to convince me this is safer than it sounds. Cheers!
Even if living in it 24/7 sucks for the fish, the exposure for a human that eats the fish is still transient - the tritium in the fish enters and leaves much like the water you’d drink does.
Glad to be providing helpful information. It’s easy for fears to magnify and spread, humans have a bias towards paying attention to danger because that’s really helpful in evolutionary terms when there could be a hungry leopard hiding in any bush.