Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over

Re:Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over by wmeddie on Friday August 30, 2013 @05:46AM (#6300908)

A quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha shows that it would be 292,000,000 L Which would fill 116 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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Re:Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over by ovi256 on Friday August 30, 2013 @06:49AM (#6301069)

Thanks, I can totally visualize that arbitrary number of Olympic pools now!

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Re:Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over by a_bonobo on Friday August 30, 2013 @07:40AM (#6301187)

Wikipedia says:

>The volume of the Atlantic with its adjacent seas is 354,700,000 cubic kilometers

1 cubic kilometer is 1 000 000 000 000 liters, so 354,700,000 cubic kilometers is 354,700,000,000,000,000,000 l.

1 ton of water is 907 l water, and Fukushima leaks 450 tons a day, that's 408,150 l.

Divided and multiplied by 100 that's 1.3*10^(-13)%.

Keep in mind, as I said above, that this water itself is a dilution of radioactivity.

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