The actual data:<p>> That water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organisation drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre, according to Tepco.<p>Google tells me regular seawater is 14 Bq/l.<p>Anyone with physics knowledge want to do the journalist's actual job and chime in? 10x worse than average sounds bad but 50x better than safe sounds good. What's the actual effect here? Is the tritium itself the problem (vs. I'm assuming, usually potassium)?
“190 becquerels per liter”<p>Oh gee oh wow!<p>1 millicurie (mCi) = 37 megabecquerels (MBq)<p>1 PET/CT scan is between 4-20 mCi.<p>So I guess if you drink, snort, bathe and just enematize yourselves with 48,684 liters of this poisonous horrible water it will be the same as getting a single PET CT.<p>The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.<p>These people have to breathe canned air Space Balls style but they have time to cry and complain about 190 becquerels that are going to be diluted to homeopathic concentration rapidly.<p>Why don’t they find time to worry about radon gas? We all are probably breathing in enough of that shit to actually give us lung cancer but it doesn’t bother most.