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by u320 1519 days ago
Tritium has a biological half-life in humans of 8 days. It's not a "big danger". Japan has gone out of their way to take all the precautions here, but since it's nuclear you know somebody is going to raise a stink anyway.
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We share the planet with other organisms, and we even eat some of them.

"Is not a danger" here means "we don't know and, as long as liability is impossible to be traced back to us, we don't care".