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Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi by wewake on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:34PM (#25566763)
What's worse than radioactive isotopes that can't possibly be filtered out in conventional water treatment plants?

Pollution is an issue in majority of rivers in the world, especially in developing countries but doesn't justify or discount radioactive waste in there.

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Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi by baybal2 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:36PM (#25573835)
Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Heavy metals take months, to years to debilitate, or kill.

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Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi by wewake on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:14AM (#25580010)
> Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Your point being? What do you think water treatment plants are for?

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Re:Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi by baybal2 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:28AM (#25580079)
My point is, even with plutonium in water, India would have much bigger, and harder to fix problems that that.

Finding plutonium would be nowhere near as hard as thousands of sources of untreated sewage.

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