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Ah, ye olde solution to pollution is dilution, huh?
It kind of is, to be fair. Until the diluted stuff bioaccumulates, biomagnifies up the food-chain and ends up back on your plate in not entirely diluted form but who cares about future-peoples problems, let's just fucking dump it all, yeehaw
This is very literally a drop in the ocean.
Sure, but a single particle of that drop when ingested may cause cancer (because there's no thin film of aluminium inside of your body), the entire oceanic eco-system is one extremely complex filtering system for water - and a whole bunch of people get a substantial part of their diet from the sea.
Also, from a cursory search I found this. Quote:
There's a bunch more in the related articles below.
Yeah if you're in a hail of bullets but you only catch one I guess it's a win. Nice to remember how rain works too. Ocean heats, water evaporates, radioactive rain falls into our drinking water.
It takes so little tritium to cause cancer. But hey as long as people getting paid amirite
One particle of radiation is very different than a bullet.