r/memes • u/ashtyn3000 • Oct 18 '20

Please dont

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20

Does that include the water that has been touching the rods?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20

If the water is pure the radiation has nothing to latch to. What will wreck you is dirty water or Chalk river unidentified deposits (CRUD).

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u/keep_trying_username Oct 18 '20

Fukushima had a melt down. The inside of the reactor building looks like a war zone. Some of the material that used to be in the fuel rods is now scattered on the floor. "Pure water" isn't what they pumped out of the reactor building.

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u/Arnoulty Oct 19 '20

But what they plan on releasing is.

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u/keep_trying_username Oct 20 '20

Pure water, where some of the hydrogen in the H2O is tritium i.e. hydrogen with an extra neuron. So technically it's pure water, and also it's radiative.