[ipaddr]

10,000 is very high and this level will be lowered hopefully in time.

In Ontario Canada:

20 Bq/L limit proposed by the Ontario Drinking Water Advisory Council (ODWAC)

190 is 10 times that limit.

This isn't only about drinking water it's about eating seafood that has absorbed these chemicals (or eaten many fish who have absorbed them). I could understand the caution around seafood in that area for a period of time.

[freetime2]

This isn't drinking water, though. This is the concentration in water that is going to be discharged into the ocean and rapidly diluted even further (1 - 2 Bq/L within a few km of where it's being discharged, and difficult to distinguish from background levels in the ocean beyond that [1]).

And as the article notes, there are active Nuclear power plants in France and China (and South Korea [2]) that discharge even more tritium per year than is planned at Fukushima. Should people also be cautious about eating seafood from those regions as well?

[1] https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissi...

[2] https://www.kns.org/files/pre_paper/17/173%EC%86%A1%EA%B7%9C...

[ohgodplsno]

I regret to tell you the ODWAC is made up of unqualified morons preying on your fears then.

The ocean's average radioactivity is 12Bq/L, and there's a _lot_ of water. A single banana is 20Bq already.

Dump a few million litres of 10000Bq/L water in the ocean over a few years, and the average radioactivity goes to... Still 12Bq/L

[cornholio]

It depends on the exact elements that are causing that emission level. Heavy metals such as those present in nuclear waste tend to bio-accumulate in marine organisms, that then find their way into the food chain.

This is unlike, say, naturally radioactive carbon or potassium isotopes, that have a relatively constant concentration in the animal's body over it's life time - if a fish eats some high potassium food, it will excrete an equivalent of his own equally radioactive amount to maintain homeostasis.

It's for this exact reason the net "banana dose" of radiation, unless you are potassium deficient, is in fact zero.

[ohgodplsno]

TW: French

https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1694248709180084514

TEPCO did not detect any iron 55 or selenium 79, yet they are included in their estimates, at the worst possible doses, explcitly for safety. The amounts rejected and the radiation it exposes you to is about as harmful as living a few floors higher up that what you do. It's nothing.

[fomine3]

Tritium does not become concentrated, that's why it's hard to collect and many countries drop it to ocean.

[sasoon]

Your body now emits 5000 becquerels, which is around 70 becquerels per liter of your body. So that Fukushima radioactive water is only 2-3 times more radioactive than you. That is why 20 Bq/L limit proposed by the ODWAC does not make much sense.