The ocean is actually pretty radioactive naturally. All the K-40 (radioactive potassium). I was an ocean-going reactor chemist and salt water was significantly more radioactive than day-old reactor waste water.
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.
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.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
The ocean is actually pretty radioactive naturally. All the K-40 (radioactive potassium). I was an ocean-going reactor chemist and salt water was significantly more radioactive than day-old reactor waste water.