Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing more than 1 million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, putting into motion a plan that has drawn strong criticism from China.
Actually we both screwed up by a factor of 1000, the article states 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, not cubic meter.
Seems like you have the right order of magnitude, but the sources I’ve seen gives the ocean close to 0.5-2 TU, or “Tritium Units” which correspond to 180 Bq/m^3. So I wouldn’t call the water being released as cleaner, just basically on average with the ocean already.
Thanks - I did edit it to say whoops, but it’s still pretty informative I’d say. People get silly about radiation and then go out and tan in the sun for a few hours :P
Actually we both screwed up by a factor of 1000, the article states 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, not cubic meter.
Seems like you have the right order of magnitude, butthe sources I’ve seen gives the ocean close to 0.5-2 TU, or “Tritium Units” which correspond to 180 Bq/m^3.So I wouldn’t call the water being released as cleaner, just basically on average with the ocean already.https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/etg.tmp/text/woce_method.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718348034
This is why I should stick to computing ;) Thanks for the update.
Still the comment should be and stay top because it’s far more informative than most of comments usually
Thanks - I did edit it to say whoops, but it’s still pretty informative I’d say. People get silly about radiation and then go out and tan in the sun for a few hours :P