It kind of is, to be fair. Until the diluted stuff bioaccumulates, biomagnifies up the food-chain and ends up back on your plate in not entirely diluted form but who cares about future-peoples problems, let's just fucking dump it all, yeehaw

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very literally a drop in the ocean.

[–] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Sure, but a single particle of that drop when ingested may cause cancer (because there's no thin film of aluminium inside of your body), the entire oceanic eco-system is one extremely complex filtering system for water - and a whole bunch of people get a substantial part of their diet from the sea.

Also, from a cursory search I found this. Quote:

Accumulations of organic tritium into the mussel tissues from tritiated-phytoplankton demonstrate an environmentally relevant transfer pathway of tritium even when water-concentrations are reduced, adding weight to the assertion that organically bound tritium acts as a persistent organic pollutant. The persistence, potential for biomagnification and the increased toxicity of organic tritium increases the potential impact on the environment following a release of HTO; current legislation does not adequately take into account the nature of organic forms of tritium and therefore may be underestimating accumulation and toxic effect of tritium in the environment.

There's a bunch more in the related articles below.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah if you're in a hail of bullets but you only catch one I guess it's a win. Nice to remember how rain works too. Ocean heats, water evaporates, radioactive rain falls into our drinking water.

It takes so little tritium to cause cancer. But hey as long as people getting paid amirite

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

One particle of radiation is very different than a bullet.