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Originally Posted by protheus
Actually this was to be expected, as they were pouring every day thousands of liters of water to cool those troubled reactors. Although they poured radioactive water in the ocean, its level of radioactivity and the amount of radioactive dangerous elements (such as Cesium) are too low to be a danger for an area bigger than at most 50 square km of seawater. Most of the radioactivity was from Iodine, which has a half life of about 9 days, so besides being diluted in millions of liters of water, it looses about half its radioactivity every 9 days.
Anyway, to comply with BJ, RUUUUUUUN, I heard jogging is good for the health and releases endorphins.
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Yeah I know about the water being pumped in, but i was expecting it to either have vaporized due to the heat within the reactor core, and whatever not vaporized will goes in to some sort of circulation system. Failing that, I was expecting them to pump the water to an alternate container
On a different note, depending on the type of material, short half life may not be a good thing, because that also dictates how long it will take to be "depleted" dud to diffusion and "radiation". But in this case, I don't think Iodine falls in that category of "Extremely toxic substance"