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Re:Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the pacific ocean... by jhugo on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:14AM (#31191134)
> As is known that Tritium is bioaccumulative to the point of probably acting as a persistent organic pollutant

Huh? It has a half-life of 12 years.

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Re:Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the pacific ocean... by jayparth on Thursday April 28, 2022 @08:28AM (#31191667)
Biological half life is the more important figure here, by the way, and it’s very short (less than a month)
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