Re: [Bulk] RE: [cdn-nucl-l] Tritium danger underrated, report says

[Randal Leavitt <randal.leavitt@rogers.com>]

Franta, Jaroslav wrote:
> The 7000 Bq/L criterion for H3 also makes an interesting comparison to 
> geothermal power plant wastes, which _average 4,900 Bq/kg_, and 
> include radionuclides with far higher decay energies (for water, 1L = 
> 1kg).
I am a bit lost in all these calculations.  So here is my question:

Given a housewife who lives 10 km from a CANDU reactor, what gives her 
the biggest dose of radiation each day:

a. her husband

b. the bananas in her kitchen if she eats one per day

c. the tritium in the water at the level reported by the greenpeace article.

What should she do:

a. leave her husband,

b. stop eating bananas,

c. move, or

d. bask in the radiation hormesis effects.

This is the way the answer has to be framed to counter the greenpeace story.

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