Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by greenshackle2 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:08PM (#17568382)

For perspective, that's 4 olympic swimming pools worth of water. It's not a small amount but it's not enormous as far as volumes of liquid goes.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by anonymouz on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:23PM (#17569034)

A typical olympic pool (assumed 50m x 25m x 2m; the depth actually isn't standarized), contains 2500m^3 of water. 1m^3 of water has a mass of 1t (in typical conditions).

So 10^6 tons of water corresponds to 400 olympic swimming pools. That's quite a lot of water (still not much compared to the volume of the oceans, of course).

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by greenshackle2 on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:04PM (#17595993)

You're right, I was going off the parent. They made an error somewhere, 1 million tons is 240 million gallons, not 2.4 millions.

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