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A comment on Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine. Parent comment

Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by DennisP on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:55PM (#17570688)
"Tons of radioactive water" is a silly measurement. The water itself isn't radioactive, it has radioactive material mixed in with it. If you quadrupled the amount of water, you would have 4 million tons of radioactive water but it'd be the same amount of radioactivity, just more diluted.
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by squirrelicus on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:33PM (#17572224)
It's even sillier because "radioactive water" isn't a measurement of the amount of radiation or a description of the decay process that reduces the danger over time
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