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FBaggins

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1. Unintentionally deceptive - but in both directions
Sun Oct 8, 2023, 09:47 AM
Oct 2023

It isn’t appropriate to look at the entire pacific. After all - the Exxon Valdez spill was a tiny fraction of the oil that naturally seeps into the pacific each year… yet was devastating for the local environment.

But a more localized analysis would still tell a similar story (of zero risk from dumping water contaminated solely with tritium)

Looking in the other direction- becquerels are not equal in their health risk… and a bq from tritium is of less risk than almost any other form of radiation. 20 keV vs. 1.3 MeV for Potassium 40.

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