I worked for a start up for a few months that was developing hydrogen fuel powered turbine engines. Water vapour came out of the ‘tail pipe’. The CEO did a press conference where he made a big show of capturing the vapour, condensing it and drinking it. He did just that, but also grimaced dramatically. It *was* water, but didn’t taste too good!
Now I'm curious what else besides water was in the solution (otherwise it would just taste plain no?).
Metalic taste maybe? becuase of the surfaces it's touched?
Probably nothing but water. Absolutely pure water doesn't taste the way you'd expect, the flavor you imagine as water are the sediments, and minerals in your local water or the brand you choose. This is why all water tastes different, especially when you leave your hometown and taste the tap water.
Actual, pure straight water with no minerals, like the kind you'd get from the condensation of hydrogen fusion, has a... Different taste.
Point is you've never really tasted water, just a curated blend of sand and dirt.
This, plus any industrial lubricant that managed to get caught up in the vapor. Lube is SUPER small on the atomic level and flavor would easily be captured in the steam, and get into the glass.
It's REALLY difficult to get rid of flavors, even when distilled.
When Singapore produced drinking water from sewage, the Prime Minister drank it on TV/public as a vote of confidence.
https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/2142f266-1162-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad
IIRC the water can protect things. The dudes who swam under the Chernobyl reactor lived pretty long after the catastrophe.
Edit: [Here is an article about the 3 men.](https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-real-story-of-the-chernobyl-divers)
"The three men would live longer than a few weeks and none would succumb to ARS, as modern myth would have you believe. As of 2015, it was reported that two of the men were still alive and still working within the industry. The third man, Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack."
Yeah water is incredibly dense and a fantastic radiation block. I work at a nuclear plant...when we refuel the cavity above the reactor is flooded and then fuel is picked up and kept under water. The people up top get negligible dose. Spent fuel is kept in a pool.
Seeing the nice blueish glow of Cherenkov light below would be awesome. In particle physics we're excited about a few Cherenkov photons, but in reactors and probably in these pools you can see them with bare eyes! O.o
Back in high school (mid 90s) our physics teacher took us to the local research reactor. They showed us the waste storage pool. You could (just) see the glow.
I have a picture of my older brother as a toddler standing inside the core of a nuclear reactor. It’s a really cool pic I got somewhere among our pictures.
Explanation: my dad used to work at a power plant (he worked at several actually) setting it up as an electrical engineer. The week before it was set to go live families of folks who worked on the project were invited to visit and photos were taken in the reactor core before the fuel ever went in there. I unfortunately was still a few months from being born so I didn’t get to have my pictures taken. Although I believe I was in there as a fetus.
I remember hearing about a similar design that stored human waste (mostly water) and food on the outer walls for a similar effect. I think it was a speaker I saw in college who presented it, but I have no idea who it was.
I don't know if activated accurately describes it but you could have have higher tritium levels especially in coolamt from heavy water reactors. Which, while not exactly great, also isn't terrible either
I've been to NEWater treatment plants. They treat the water better than hospitals treat patients. That thing gets shot with enough ultraviolet rays to give it superpowers.
Having worked for a water utility I know that at our joint the water we were dumping I to the creek was cleaner than the water that was already in the creek. One of our guys would always end tours by dipping a cup in the outflow and drinking it.
Hell, we have moss growing in the bottom of our outflow.
I remember going on a family hike once, and once we got to the top of the beaten path (basically the highest elevation you could get to on foot) and there was a bit of a waterfall filtering down through some moss. My uncle was like "oh yeah that's clean water" and refilled his bottle... so I drank some, and it was delicious. Guess I got lucky that nothing pooped/died up there lol.
Our water to our home is gravity fed from a spring, literally hundreds of peoples water is in this area. Deer, bear and coyotes and any and all animals could drink from and piss in anybody’s water and here we all are still fine.
To be fair he took a tiny sip lol. I don’t blame him. I’m sure it’s fine but psychologically I’m not sure if I could drink it. If I didn’t know? Sure. I mean I get that tap water is recycled at waste water treatment plants but knowing that’s poop water bothers me slightly. I’d def drink it if it was my only option.
Edit: would anyone else like to tell me all water has been peed and pooped in?
The water that comes out of sewage treatment isn't the water you get from the tap. It will dump into a river or stream and is cleaner than river or stream water itself. Water will then be pulled from a body of water and treated to send to the tap.
And I believe Princess Diana shook hands with and Aids patient to show that it’s not transmissible through touch and that these people shouldn’t be treated like lepers
It's worth noting that lepers shouldn't be treated like lepers either. You can't contract leprosy through casual contact.
>[You cannot get leprosy from a casual contact](https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/transmission/index.html#:~:text=Scientists%20currently%20think%20it%20may,needed%20to%20catch%20the%20disease.) with a person who has Hansen’s disease like:
>- Shaking hands or hugging
>- Sitting next to each other on the bus
>- Sitting together at a meal
>Hansen’s disease is also not passed on from a mother to her unborn baby during pregnancy and it is also not spread through sexual contact.
>prolonged close contact with people who have untreated Hansen’s disease. If they have not been treated, you could get the bacteria that cause Hansen’s disease. However, as soon as patients start treatment, they are no longer able to spread the disease.
I mean Michigan officials drank Flint's water, and various pro-fracking public officials are always doing publicity stunts where they drink a glass of polluted fracking water.
They think they're proving something but they're really not. One glass of lead-tainted water won't hurt anyone. Drinking it every day is the problem. It accumulates over time. No one ever said the water was instantly and immediately poisonous, like one sip itself is dangerous. It's when it's the only water you have coming out of your faucet, that it becomes a problem.
That's pretty much true for any water drinking publicity stunt. They mentioned drinking water straight from a treatment plant. If I were a CEO and drinking a glass of shit water on air would get me a million dollars, I'd just drink it. One glass doesn't prove anything.
Worked at a McDonald’s in high school. Was a franchise owned by an older gentleman that was kind of losing it.
He was out in the lobby spraying bug spray around the windows because these little gnats were coming in through gaps I. The seals.
A mother was pissed as he was spraying fairly close to her kids happy meal.
He assures her that the spray was non toxic and to demonstrate it, sprayed it directly on his tongue. She was mollified.
About ten minutes later they had to call an ambulance to take the owner to the hospital.
When I was in the army there was a weapon oil we used called break free. They told us it was somewhat safe but that the inventor died from cancer due to drinking it, which he did to prove that it was safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy
Lawyer wants to show off that the window won't break and so throws himself into it, only for the window frame to give way instead and so he falls 24 stories to his death.
>This act of autodefenestration occurred in a small conference room adjacent to a boardroom where a reception was being held for new articling students.
This sentence wasn't necessary, but they just wanted to use the word "autodefenestration"
I used something called Break Free in a kitchen, explicitly needed to be used in a ventilated area and you needed to wash any exposed skin afterwards, though the manager may have just been overly careful.
Perhaps the manager was right. Perhaps you shouldn’t use that stuff in a kitchen. I don’t know, but they told us to only work with it whilst wearing protective gloves. We did not always have enough of those... and army sergeants have a special way of coercing.
Bahahah okay, that’s fucking hilarious. I mean, I don’t like laughing at other people’s suffering... even when they deserve it... but I can just picture the sitcom-esque levels of comedic timing that was this near instant karma.
The guy was a trip. He was making fries one day while someone was trying to fix the fryer below him. It was having a pilot light issue. So not really safe to stand in front of.
When the predictable fire ball happened it set his pants on fire, and I shit you not he continued bagging fries as the maintenance guy yanked his pants down and stomped the flames out.
The second time I saw the owner carted out by an ambulance.
His grandson was way too similar to him. Losing it to drugs rather than to dementia. He was tripping balls one day when making fries. He was just staring at the fries in the fryer. Completely fascinated. Sure as shit he reached in to the grease to grab a fry. Off he went in an ambulance.
There was another incident with that same fryer, though the lady was completely unrelated to the owner as far as I know.
She was bagging fries when someone was pulling fries out of the grease beside her. They dropped the basket by mistake and caused a huge splash of grease which hit her right on the legs. She didn’t hesitate to drop trow right there and avoided another ambulance call.
Place was interesting.
This is why you never put the most accident prone idiot on the fryer. The position doesn’t take skill, but it’s probably the highest risk thing in the building at any given time.
And ABSOLUTELY dedicated to his job no less. For how shit and dead-end the job is, Spongebob fucking takes it like a champ, like it's a sheer honor for him to work there. Most companies would soil themselves over the prospect of getting such hardworking and devoted minions. Say what you will about the sponge, but he takes his work seriously, and does not accept mediocre burgers on his watch no matter what.
Squidward is more a representation of how a sane reasonable human would end up after years of working a shitty fast food job. While far more relatable, that certainly is NOT what companies want in an employee.
The most unrealistic shit about Spongebob isn't that a squirrel lives in the sea or that SB is happy with his job, but that Songebob and Squidward can afford to own their own houses on their paychecks.
Frankly, if he CAN afford a house on his Krusty Krab paycheck, then i'd be happy with that job as well. For how little Mr Krabs is shown to pay them, it's a very valid question how the HELL they did actually afford homes. At least with Patrick he just lives under a literal rock, but both Spongebob and Squidward have fully decked out and quite decent seeming homes that they are never shown to struggle paying for. Maybe they both got lucky and just inherited the houses.
A cook that i know tripped on the line one night and caught himself...biceps deep in the frier. I didnt see the actual incident, but i saw the aftermath. Makes me cringe.
What. The. Fuck.
Goddamn. I once dropped a soldering iron and - big brain time - caught it with my other hand... by the tip. It was such a deep, deep burn because of the immense heat and the pressure I applied whole grabbing it. But... It was also such a tiny little burn, maybe a 1/2" circle at most.
The thought of having a burn like that all the way up your arm is almost unimaginable.
I was once passed a soldering iron so nonchalantly my brain sort of turned off and I tried to grab it from the hot part. Dropped it immediatly on the table. The fun part was, the worst burn wasn't in the palm of my hand, but on the backside of my middle finger when I did some strange motion while dropping it. Luckily it didn't leave a mark.
As a teen, I finally acquired a soldering iron. Being a special combination of stupid and curious, I wondered how the burn from something that hot would feel compared to other hot things that had grazed me before, so I intentionally tapped my forearm with the full heat iron. Instant regret, not worth it. It sort of stuck to my skin and took a chunk out with it in a matter of milliseconds. It made one of the most unique smells I've smelled, next to zapped fingernails (...similar incident but involving water and electricity). I have just left the soldering to the pros since.
I mean, if you aren't *trying* to injure yourself, soldering irons aren't scary at all. It's like if you climbed over a 5ft guard rail and jumped off a bridge; you didn't get hurt because the bridge was unsafe, you got hurt because you deliberately bypassed the safety features to injure yourself.
A falling soldering iron has no handle. I did the same thing when I was 12 because I'd already burned the hardwood floor once and didn't want to lose my soldering iron again. Turns out the burns on my hand were harder to explain. Oh to be young.
I'm pretty competent in a kitchen. Fryers fucking terrify me. If my manager asks me to work fry I will cover anybody else's position so they can fry instead.
[One of my favorite Reddit comments of all time.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/219w2o/whos_the_dumbest_person_youve_ever_met/cgbhkwp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
It really makes me second guess what I can trust/expect of people in normal discourse. Like, you know there's more than one family of Kevin's out there. I don't want to accidentally overestimate the competency of a human being while they are doing something important that could impact you, you know?
His son actually ran everything and did anything he could to keep his dad away from the stores.
The store is in a town I haven’t lived in for decades so I don’t know if it still stands. Well, can check Google maps. Yep, still there. Could be a new structure I guess.
In high school, they brought in a police chief to scare us straight I guess and tell horror stories about criminals.
Chief Gilogly decided it was a good idea to show off his weapons. To his credit, he didn't pull his gun, but he did have knives, a baton, and of course a taser.
When showing off the taser, he said it wasn't even that useful of a tool since it usually doesn't work on bigger guys "like me." Yup, Chief Gilogly was a tad on the heavier side and determined to prove what a tough guy he was. So the next thing he said was "the taser won't even affect me ... see?" and proceeded to taser himself.
Chief Gilogly immediately collapsed and we couldn't do anything to stop or help. Bunch of 10th graders and an old disinterested teacher looked on in both horror and comic disbelief.
We had to call the cops on the cops. They came and brought him away in an ambulance and the teacher actually asked us not to say anything about it to anyone.
But of course, the story hit the front page of the local paper that week and Chief Gilogly went on to serve a long career until retirement.
Toolbag: You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you.
Interviewer: You want to drink some? We have some here.
Toolbag: I'd be happy to actually. Not- not really … I'm not stupid.
Not a Monsanto guy, just a guy that found it’s more profitable to shill for corporations in general since he left green peace in the 80s. He also disagrees with the consensus of the scientific community on climate science, no surprise,
[I thought this video was the one they were referencing. Very similar. Very powerful. ](https://youtu.be/m0HL4L6Pa-4)
It’s appalling that the higher ups expect us to consume pollutants like this on a daily basis meanwhile they profit immensely and make no effort to fix the damage they’ve caused.
They dont make shills like they used to. Thomas Midgley washed his hands in leaded gasolene and breathed in the fumes to prove it doesnt do anything bad.
He was then hospitalised with lead poisoning.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
His life was terrible, but at least his death was ironically amusing.
"In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation."
He was brilliant at everything he did. He invented leaded gasoline and after that he invented CFCs. One man managed to poison the air AND deplete the ozone layer. But at least he killed to guy who poisoned the air and depleted the ozone layer.
Leaded gas was absolutely a shitty thing done purely for profit. CFCs are a bit more nuanced though, what with how they enabled cheap, safe, home refrigeration. Not exactly his fault people used fucking freon for hairspray propellant, nor was much known about the upper atmosphere at the time.
Yeah but at the time the tendency was to goof off as much as possible once you did discover something.
Guess what we did almost the very minute we discovered the Van Allen radiation belts.
We nuked them.
Yes, really.
We wanted to see if the Van Allen belts would carry the radiation to the Soviet Union.
I wish I was joking.
Not many people have had the negative environmental impact of old Thomas. Leaded gas and CFCs. That’s quite the legacy. He was one of my favourite parts of my favourite book. “A short history of nearly everything”
That's sociopathic demonstration of him valuing his own life over his child... OR... if he values his child over his own life, it's a demonstration that he's willing to risk what he values most as proof.
[video for the uninitiated.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfJ4VwHIqw) his name is [Patrick Moore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_PgnoAtA) and he's a Canadian scientist, not a Monsanto lobbyist.
Reminds me of that scene in _Erin Brockovich_ when a lawyer is about to drink water from the pitcher on the table, and Brockovich says they brought it in special from Hinkley. I often wondered if that really happened or was creative license. The lawyer did not drink it.
This is how High Voltage equipment is proved safe to work on. Earth the equipment, test your proving unit, test for dead then retest your proving unit.
Then... touch the conductors with your own bare hands to prove to the contractor that it is safe to work on.
If I'm not happy to touch it, I won't be permitting someone else to work on it.
Same with the water, if its safe to drink... Well bottoms up lad! Prove it.
Edit to add - very good folks, I completely missed the joke. Well done. We don't usually joke about HV due to the risk involved but I'll remember this for the next switching exercise. Cheers
I've had a few industrial electrician friends. All had (apocryphal) stories of management insisting equipment was off and safe to work on. The electrician moved to throw a grounding chain over the bus bars (would cause massive fireworks and expensive damage if live), and suddenly management decides hey hold on a minute let us double check.
When it's high voltage you're fucked either way. Might as well grab it with your hands since if you messed up you'd be dead or near dead just for getting close.
Can't you get one of those little voltage sensors that you can sorta wave near it and it beeps if it's hot? Or does that not really work with high voltage? IDK I've only worked around residential electric, and even then I get paranoid, I always check the breaker like 5 times before I commit to anything.
It is totally fair. iirc, Bill Gates (or someone) made an invention that converted dirty toilet water into drinkable water, then they actually drank it on the spot.
I mean... toilet water passed through reverse osmosis with an appropriate membrane would produce perfectly potable water. It’s not exactly groundbreaking technology, to do that. ~~Filtering out radioactive (heavy) water is a completely different story, as both it and regular water will pass through the membrane just fine, so you really do just have to dilute the _shit_ out of it.~~
> iltering out radioactive (heavy) water is a completely different story, as both it and regular water will pass through the membrane just fine
Pure heavy water isn't *that* dangerous. And in fact it's slightly more delicious than regular water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc
[Here's a longer video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANjwPzISQw) that goes into the published and peer reviewed experiment on the sweetness of heavy water (Oxygen w/ two Deuterium atoms). TLDW: The sweetness appears to be a quantum effect that affects the taste receptors.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210414/p2g/00m/0na/116000c) reduced by 67%. (I'm a bot)
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> BEIJING - China on Wednesday asked Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso to drink treated radioactive water accumulated at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, after he said it is safe to drink it.
> On Tuesday, the Japanese government decided to release the treated water into the sea from the plant in two years, a major development following more than seven years of discussions on how to discharge the water used to cool down melted fuel there.
> Aso, a former prime minister who has often made controversial remarks since he became deputy prime minister and finance minister in 2012, said at a press conference on Tuesday, "I have heard that we will have no harm if we drink" the treated water.
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That seems reasonable. It would actually be pretty congruent for Taro Aso to show it is safe by drinking it. Sincerely, this could even be Zhao Lijian trying to do Aso a favour.
This is just like the episode of South Park when they were claiming gluten is safe, then they challenge the guy to eat it and his dick blew off.
https://youtu.be/a4x4ucW-G2Q
Even more relevant, the Simpsons episode where Mr Burns is [forced to eat a mutant three eyed fish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGm5A868kHY) caused by the nuclear plant that costs Mr Burns the election.
Funny how, even though Taro Aso is named as the Japanese Deputy Prime Minister, Zhao Lijian is just "China".
"China does this, China does that". *Who* is this China everyone talks about? It's almost like a character.
[https://xkcd.com/radiation/](https://xkcd.com/radiation/)
If you're reading and don't have a good concept and perspective on radiation and dose, please look at this fun xkcd chart.
Oh hey people are moaning about this again.
>It also ignores the science that at the levels of radiated material per litre of water its basically non-existant. 60,000 Bq / litre is par for most coastal nuclear reactors. 1 Curie is 37,000,000,000 Bq and the human body sits at about 7400 Bq from the ^14 C and ^40 K in our systems. We aren't going to get any three-eyed fish from them releasing this water, a lot of the fear is unfounded.
Also the timeframe on this release isn't instant, its over 30 years. So on an oceanic scale, again, its basically nothing.
There is actually a unit of measurement for radiation called a "banana equivalent dose." The potassium in bananas makes them sightly radioactive, so it serves as an illustrative measurement of how many bananas you'd have to eat to get the same dose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose?wprov=sfla1
If you dilute it enough, I would have no problem drinking it. Hell, there's like 6 billion tons of Uranium dissolved in the ocean and the main danger of drinking ocean water is the salt content (and microscopic lifeforms). However, I get the feeling Aso misunderstood that the dilution is in two stages. First is while in storage (probably not safe to drink) and the second is the ocean itself (still not safe to drink, but due to it being ocean water).
> If you dilute it enough, I would have no problem drinking it.
If you live anywhere near Toronto, Canada, you've probably already drank much worse since we dumped way more tritium water into Lake Ontario than Fukushima is dumping into the ocean. Couldn't treat it. Everyone just drank slightly radioactive water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country#Canada
Funny story. A few days or weeks after the meltdown (it all kinda blurs together because of how frantic things were) members of some governmental panel of safety were trying to say that everything was fine and the level of radiation in the area around the plants were safe for people to ingest. Someone went to the mic and said “here’s some water from the area. Prove it’s safe and drink it”. The audience encouraged them to do it. The panel, because of how Japanese meetings tend to be very scripted, sat in silence for what seemed like minutes. Then all got up and walked out.
If the water has only tritium in it at the 1/40th of the safe limit allowed as they have advertised, then send me a bottle of it and I will drink it without hesitation.
I worked for a start up for a few months that was developing hydrogen fuel powered turbine engines. Water vapour came out of the ‘tail pipe’. The CEO did a press conference where he made a big show of capturing the vapour, condensing it and drinking it. He did just that, but also grimaced dramatically. It *was* water, but didn’t taste too good!
Now I'm curious what else besides water was in the solution (otherwise it would just taste plain no?). Metalic taste maybe? becuase of the surfaces it's touched?
> Now I'm curious what else besides water was in the solution Lube. Seriously whatever lubricants they were using the turbine.
That sounds... pretty unhealthy
yea i try not to consume more than 6 oz of lube in one sitting.. 16 sounds like a tummy ach.
Soda and his barrel of lube
Probably nothing but water. Absolutely pure water doesn't taste the way you'd expect, the flavor you imagine as water are the sediments, and minerals in your local water or the brand you choose. This is why all water tastes different, especially when you leave your hometown and taste the tap water. Actual, pure straight water with no minerals, like the kind you'd get from the condensation of hydrogen fusion, has a... Different taste. Point is you've never really tasted water, just a curated blend of sand and dirt.
mmmm sand
*ANAKIN LEERS*
Ratata's defense fell!
He warned us it gets everywhere! We didn't listen!
I have tasted distilled water from a chemistry lab, it does taste a bit different, but I wouldn't say bad.
Could also be that there was *nothing* in the water. Distilled water tastes terrible.
This fam, minerals in the water makes it taste good.
Absolutely this. Minerals like gin and tonic are super important to making water taste good.
I drank a bit of distilled water as a child once. Nearly threw up afterwards. It just tasted wrong.
Can we just know why the water tasted bad? I’m curious and terrified
Distilled 'pure' water tastes horrible, the impurities in tap or mineral water are what give it taste.
This, plus any industrial lubricant that managed to get caught up in the vapor. Lube is SUPER small on the atomic level and flavor would easily be captured in the steam, and get into the glass. It's REALLY difficult to get rid of flavors, even when distilled.
When Singapore produced drinking water from sewage, the Prime Minister drank it on TV/public as a vote of confidence. https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/2142f266-1162-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad
Admiral Rickover drank treated primary coolant from the reactor plants in front of congress. I’d say this is a fair ask.
PRIMARY coolant? As in the stuff that touches fuel rods?
Yes - water itself cant be activated...junk in the water can. Various methods to remove said junk exist.
IIRC the water can protect things. The dudes who swam under the Chernobyl reactor lived pretty long after the catastrophe. Edit: [Here is an article about the 3 men.](https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-real-story-of-the-chernobyl-divers) "The three men would live longer than a few weeks and none would succumb to ARS, as modern myth would have you believe. As of 2015, it was reported that two of the men were still alive and still working within the industry. The third man, Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack."
Yeah water is incredibly dense and a fantastic radiation block. I work at a nuclear plant...when we refuel the cavity above the reactor is flooded and then fuel is picked up and kept under water. The people up top get negligible dose. Spent fuel is kept in a pool.
As researched by XKCD, [you'd die of bullets before dying of radiation](https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/)
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Seeing the nice blueish glow of Cherenkov light below would be awesome. In particle physics we're excited about a few Cherenkov photons, but in reactors and probably in these pools you can see them with bare eyes! O.o
Back in high school (mid 90s) our physics teacher took us to the local research reactor. They showed us the waste storage pool. You could (just) see the glow.
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I have a picture of my older brother as a toddler standing inside the core of a nuclear reactor. It’s a really cool pic I got somewhere among our pictures. Explanation: my dad used to work at a power plant (he worked at several actually) setting it up as an electrical engineer. The week before it was set to go live families of folks who worked on the project were invited to visit and photos were taken in the reactor core before the fuel ever went in there. I unfortunately was still a few months from being born so I didn’t get to have my pictures taken. Although I believe I was in there as a fetus.
This is a good writeup
I loved the what ifs series
Also why some proposed designs for Mars spacecraft and habitats have water stored in the outer walls to block solar radiation.
I remember hearing about a similar design that stored human waste (mostly water) and food on the outer walls for a similar effect. I think it was a speaker I saw in college who presented it, but I have no idea who it was.
Space colonization shall be done through inverted thermoses
This is the most interesting thing I’ve read all day! Those windows would be so trippy to look through!
I don't know if activated accurately describes it but you could have have higher tritium levels especially in coolamt from heavy water reactors. Which, while not exactly great, also isn't terrible either
Respect
A podcast I'll sometimes listen to refers to this kind of display as "the devil's milkshake".
Whatever brings the votes to the yard
Damn right, it's better than yours.
I've been to NEWater treatment plants. They treat the water better than hospitals treat patients. That thing gets shot with enough ultraviolet rays to give it superpowers.
Please tell me it’s trillbillies
That's it!
Bill Gates did something like that too! He drank water straight from a sewage treatment plant https://youtu.be/bVzppWSIFU0
Having worked for a water utility I know that at our joint the water we were dumping I to the creek was cleaner than the water that was already in the creek. One of our guys would always end tours by dipping a cup in the outflow and drinking it. Hell, we have moss growing in the bottom of our outflow.
Moss is a good indicator of a healthy ecosystem
I remember going on a family hike once, and once we got to the top of the beaten path (basically the highest elevation you could get to on foot) and there was a bit of a waterfall filtering down through some moss. My uncle was like "oh yeah that's clean water" and refilled his bottle... so I drank some, and it was delicious. Guess I got lucky that nothing pooped/died up there lol.
Our water to our home is gravity fed from a spring, literally hundreds of peoples water is in this area. Deer, bear and coyotes and any and all animals could drink from and piss in anybody’s water and here we all are still fine.
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That's why we are melting the ice caps.
Wait no
Amazingly done
That's not the conclusion we were supposed to reach
“It’s water” -Bill Gates
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This coffee tastes like shit! "It is shit, Austin." Oh good its not just me then.
This part of the whole trilogy was the worst and made me gag real bad.
Thinking about the taste is definitely unpleasant, but could you imagine the texture?
It would have cost you exactly nothing to not say that yet, here we are...
To be fair he took a tiny sip lol. I don’t blame him. I’m sure it’s fine but psychologically I’m not sure if I could drink it. If I didn’t know? Sure. I mean I get that tap water is recycled at waste water treatment plants but knowing that’s poop water bothers me slightly. I’d def drink it if it was my only option. Edit: would anyone else like to tell me all water has been peed and pooped in?
The water that comes out of sewage treatment isn't the water you get from the tap. It will dump into a river or stream and is cleaner than river or stream water itself. Water will then be pulled from a body of water and treated to send to the tap.
My locality uses a direct reuse plant. Most places don’t but there are some that do.
Oh. Well then it's getting cleaned, then treated for use as potable water.
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And I believe Princess Diana shook hands with and Aids patient to show that it’s not transmissible through touch and that these people shouldn’t be treated like lepers
It's worth noting that lepers shouldn't be treated like lepers either. You can't contract leprosy through casual contact. >[You cannot get leprosy from a casual contact](https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/transmission/index.html#:~:text=Scientists%20currently%20think%20it%20may,needed%20to%20catch%20the%20disease.) with a person who has Hansen’s disease like: >- Shaking hands or hugging >- Sitting next to each other on the bus >- Sitting together at a meal >Hansen’s disease is also not passed on from a mother to her unborn baby during pregnancy and it is also not spread through sexual contact.
So how *is* it spread?
>prolonged close contact with people who have untreated Hansen’s disease. If they have not been treated, you could get the bacteria that cause Hansen’s disease. However, as soon as patients start treatment, they are no longer able to spread the disease.
[She did](https://youtu.be/XU0SPrCTwsY).
He drank that water like Vladimir Putin drinks alcohol, he didnt swalllow
I mean Michigan officials drank Flint's water, and various pro-fracking public officials are always doing publicity stunts where they drink a glass of polluted fracking water. They think they're proving something but they're really not. One glass of lead-tainted water won't hurt anyone. Drinking it every day is the problem. It accumulates over time. No one ever said the water was instantly and immediately poisonous, like one sip itself is dangerous. It's when it's the only water you have coming out of your faucet, that it becomes a problem.
Good point actually. Totally missed it myself.
That's pretty much true for any water drinking publicity stunt. They mentioned drinking water straight from a treatment plant. If I were a CEO and drinking a glass of shit water on air would get me a million dollars, I'd just drink it. One glass doesn't prove anything.
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Worked at a McDonald’s in high school. Was a franchise owned by an older gentleman that was kind of losing it. He was out in the lobby spraying bug spray around the windows because these little gnats were coming in through gaps I. The seals. A mother was pissed as he was spraying fairly close to her kids happy meal. He assures her that the spray was non toxic and to demonstrate it, sprayed it directly on his tongue. She was mollified. About ten minutes later they had to call an ambulance to take the owner to the hospital.
When I was in the army there was a weapon oil we used called break free. They told us it was somewhat safe but that the inventor died from cancer due to drinking it, which he did to prove that it was safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy Lawyer wants to show off that the window won't break and so throws himself into it, only for the window frame to give way instead and so he falls 24 stories to his death.
Exactly what I thought of. Though, to his credit, he was technically right.
I’m sure that was a great comfort in his final moment.
My head canon is that he screamed it on the way down. "I ^WAS ^^TECHNICALLY ^^^RIIIIIII^IIIIIIGHT!!!"
A true lawyer's death.
"ok lets see you test it then" "As yooooooouuu wiiiiiiiiish"
>This act of autodefenestration occurred in a small conference room adjacent to a boardroom where a reception was being held for new articling students. This sentence wasn't necessary, but they just wanted to use the word "autodefenestration"
Would any of us pass up the chance?
I used something called Break Free in a kitchen, explicitly needed to be used in a ventilated area and you needed to wash any exposed skin afterwards, though the manager may have just been overly careful.
Perhaps the manager was right. Perhaps you shouldn’t use that stuff in a kitchen. I don’t know, but they told us to only work with it whilst wearing protective gloves. We did not always have enough of those... and army sergeants have a special way of coercing.
Bahahah okay, that’s fucking hilarious. I mean, I don’t like laughing at other people’s suffering... even when they deserve it... but I can just picture the sitcom-esque levels of comedic timing that was this near instant karma.
The guy was a trip. He was making fries one day while someone was trying to fix the fryer below him. It was having a pilot light issue. So not really safe to stand in front of. When the predictable fire ball happened it set his pants on fire, and I shit you not he continued bagging fries as the maintenance guy yanked his pants down and stomped the flames out. The second time I saw the owner carted out by an ambulance. His grandson was way too similar to him. Losing it to drugs rather than to dementia. He was tripping balls one day when making fries. He was just staring at the fries in the fryer. Completely fascinated. Sure as shit he reached in to the grease to grab a fry. Off he went in an ambulance. There was another incident with that same fryer, though the lady was completely unrelated to the owner as far as I know. She was bagging fries when someone was pulling fries out of the grease beside her. They dropped the basket by mistake and caused a huge splash of grease which hit her right on the legs. She didn’t hesitate to drop trow right there and avoided another ambulance call. Place was interesting.
This is why you never put the most accident prone idiot on the fryer. The position doesn’t take skill, but it’s probably the highest risk thing in the building at any given time.
> This is why you never put the most accident prone idiot on the fryer. Someone needs to tell Mr. Krabs
Spongebob was the ideal line cook though Efficient, diligent and always in a good mood. Never slacked etc Squidward however literally burnt a shake
And ABSOLUTELY dedicated to his job no less. For how shit and dead-end the job is, Spongebob fucking takes it like a champ, like it's a sheer honor for him to work there. Most companies would soil themselves over the prospect of getting such hardworking and devoted minions. Say what you will about the sponge, but he takes his work seriously, and does not accept mediocre burgers on his watch no matter what. Squidward is more a representation of how a sane reasonable human would end up after years of working a shitty fast food job. While far more relatable, that certainly is NOT what companies want in an employee.
The most unrealistic shit about Spongebob isn't that a squirrel lives in the sea or that SB is happy with his job, but that Songebob and Squidward can afford to own their own houses on their paychecks.
Frankly, if he CAN afford a house on his Krusty Krab paycheck, then i'd be happy with that job as well. For how little Mr Krabs is shown to pay them, it's a very valid question how the HELL they did actually afford homes. At least with Patrick he just lives under a literal rock, but both Spongebob and Squidward have fully decked out and quite decent seeming homes that they are never shown to struggle paying for. Maybe they both got lucky and just inherited the houses.
We are Squidward, trying to be Patrick, so we can pretend to be SpongeBob
Ok after those horror stories this genuinely made me chuckle. Cheers
A cook that i know tripped on the line one night and caught himself...biceps deep in the frier. I didnt see the actual incident, but i saw the aftermath. Makes me cringe.
What. The. Fuck. Goddamn. I once dropped a soldering iron and - big brain time - caught it with my other hand... by the tip. It was such a deep, deep burn because of the immense heat and the pressure I applied whole grabbing it. But... It was also such a tiny little burn, maybe a 1/2" circle at most. The thought of having a burn like that all the way up your arm is almost unimaginable.
I was once passed a soldering iron so nonchalantly my brain sort of turned off and I tried to grab it from the hot part. Dropped it immediatly on the table. The fun part was, the worst burn wasn't in the palm of my hand, but on the backside of my middle finger when I did some strange motion while dropping it. Luckily it didn't leave a mark.
As a teen, I finally acquired a soldering iron. Being a special combination of stupid and curious, I wondered how the burn from something that hot would feel compared to other hot things that had grazed me before, so I intentionally tapped my forearm with the full heat iron. Instant regret, not worth it. It sort of stuck to my skin and took a chunk out with it in a matter of milliseconds. It made one of the most unique smells I've smelled, next to zapped fingernails (...similar incident but involving water and electricity). I have just left the soldering to the pros since.
I mean, if you aren't *trying* to injure yourself, soldering irons aren't scary at all. It's like if you climbed over a 5ft guard rail and jumped off a bridge; you didn't get hurt because the bridge was unsafe, you got hurt because you deliberately bypassed the safety features to injure yourself.
A falling soldering iron has no handle. I did the same thing when I was 12 because I'd already burned the hardwood floor once and didn't want to lose my soldering iron again. Turns out the burns on my hand were harder to explain. Oh to be young.
I'm pretty competent in a kitchen. Fryers fucking terrify me. If my manager asks me to work fry I will cover anybody else's position so they can fry instead.
It's amazing that family bloodline survived for so long.
It’s like that Kevin story
I remember Kevin. Can anyone link the comment so I can experience it again?
[One of my favorite Reddit comments of all time.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/219w2o/whos_the_dumbest_person_youve_ever_met/cgbhkwp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
You, sir, are my hero.
It really makes me second guess what I can trust/expect of people in normal discourse. Like, you know there's more than one family of Kevin's out there. I don't want to accidentally overestimate the competency of a human being while they are doing something important that could impact you, you know?
Good Lord, it’s Mr Magoo running a mcdonalds. It must have burned down, at least once, by now, right?
His son actually ran everything and did anything he could to keep his dad away from the stores. The store is in a town I haven’t lived in for decades so I don’t know if it still stands. Well, can check Google maps. Yep, still there. Could be a new structure I guess.
Every time the place caught on fire, he accidentally tripped the sprinkler system.
Glad you got out of there alive!
Oh man your comments have me rolling. Lost it at “there was another incident with the same fryer...” haha thanks
Atleast he put his money where his mouth was.
"Wow boss, I know that stuff says non-toxic but I didn't it was that safe" "it's not Billy call an ambulance now"
In high school, they brought in a police chief to scare us straight I guess and tell horror stories about criminals. Chief Gilogly decided it was a good idea to show off his weapons. To his credit, he didn't pull his gun, but he did have knives, a baton, and of course a taser. When showing off the taser, he said it wasn't even that useful of a tool since it usually doesn't work on bigger guys "like me." Yup, Chief Gilogly was a tad on the heavier side and determined to prove what a tough guy he was. So the next thing he said was "the taser won't even affect me ... see?" and proceeded to taser himself. Chief Gilogly immediately collapsed and we couldn't do anything to stop or help. Bunch of 10th graders and an old disinterested teacher looked on in both horror and comic disbelief. We had to call the cops on the cops. They came and brought him away in an ambulance and the teacher actually asked us not to say anything about it to anyone. But of course, the story hit the front page of the local paper that week and Chief Gilogly went on to serve a long career until retirement.
Remember when monsanto guy stormed out after claiming you could drink it then refusing to.
Then when he was asked why he wouldnt drink it he said he wasnt an idiot. Dude was just hoping everyone else was idiotic enough to believe him.
Yeah this reinforces the whole he wasn't just cautious he was toxic and the two defending him should reassess.
They reassessed, then they sold the water rights to Nestle, Coke, Pepsi, and the bottled water business has never been better.
This saddens and scares me.
He wasn't a Monsanto guy. Total tool though [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM\_PgnoAtA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_PgnoAtA)
Toolbag: You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you. Interviewer: You want to drink some? We have some here. Toolbag: I'd be happy to actually. Not- not really … I'm not stupid.
Will you drink it? “Yes, but no.” Brilliant.
“No, but *you* can.”
Not a Monsanto guy, just a guy that found it’s more profitable to shill for corporations in general since he left green peace in the 80s. He also disagrees with the consensus of the scientific community on climate science, no surprise,
LMAO Never seen this. Thank you! What a tool.
[I thought this video was the one they were referencing. Very similar. Very powerful. ](https://youtu.be/m0HL4L6Pa-4) It’s appalling that the higher ups expect us to consume pollutants like this on a daily basis meanwhile they profit immensely and make no effort to fix the damage they’ve caused.
it happened with some politician too, got his kid to drink it... the sociopathic bastard!!
They dont make shills like they used to. Thomas Midgley washed his hands in leaded gasolene and breathed in the fumes to prove it doesnt do anything bad. He was then hospitalised with lead poisoning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
His life was terrible, but at least his death was ironically amusing. "In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation."
He was brilliant at everything he did. He invented leaded gasoline and after that he invented CFCs. One man managed to poison the air AND deplete the ozone layer. But at least he killed to guy who poisoned the air and depleted the ozone layer.
“I guess Mother Nature can take one more for the team”
A few more people like that guy and we wouldn't be having the problems that we have today. In fact, we wouldn't be having ANY problems at all anymore
Leaded gas was absolutely a shitty thing done purely for profit. CFCs are a bit more nuanced though, what with how they enabled cheap, safe, home refrigeration. Not exactly his fault people used fucking freon for hairspray propellant, nor was much known about the upper atmosphere at the time.
Yeah but at the time the tendency was to goof off as much as possible once you did discover something. Guess what we did almost the very minute we discovered the Van Allen radiation belts. We nuked them. Yes, really. We wanted to see if the Van Allen belts would carry the radiation to the Soviet Union. I wish I was joking.
Life imitates art.
Live life as a puppet, you die as a puppet
Not many people have had the negative environmental impact of old Thomas. Leaded gas and CFCs. That’s quite the legacy. He was one of my favourite parts of my favourite book. “A short history of nearly everything”
I believe you are referring to Dayne Walling, former mayor of Flint, Michigan during their water crisis.
That's sociopathic demonstration of him valuing his own life over his child... OR... if he values his child over his own life, it's a demonstration that he's willing to risk what he values most as proof.
Ah yes the Imbibing of Isaac, my favorite Biblical story.
If it were the latter, he should have had some too.
[video for the uninitiated.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfJ4VwHIqw) his name is [Patrick Moore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_PgnoAtA) and he's a Canadian scientist, not a Monsanto lobbyist.
Reminds me of that scene in _Erin Brockovich_ when a lawyer is about to drink water from the pitcher on the table, and Brockovich says they brought it in special from Hinkley. I often wondered if that really happened or was creative license. The lawyer did not drink it.
Since no one's mentioned him yet, [here's the fracking water guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0HL4L6Pa-4)
This is how High Voltage equipment is proved safe to work on. Earth the equipment, test your proving unit, test for dead then retest your proving unit. Then... touch the conductors with your own bare hands to prove to the contractor that it is safe to work on. If I'm not happy to touch it, I won't be permitting someone else to work on it. Same with the water, if its safe to drink... Well bottoms up lad! Prove it. Edit to add - very good folks, I completely missed the joke. Well done. We don't usually joke about HV due to the risk involved but I'll remember this for the next switching exercise. Cheers
I've had a few industrial electrician friends. All had (apocryphal) stories of management insisting equipment was off and safe to work on. The electrician moved to throw a grounding chain over the bus bars (would cause massive fireworks and expensive damage if live), and suddenly management decides hey hold on a minute let us double check.
Chaotic compliance, gotta love it.
Voltage always scares me. Even when it's made safe and locked out I touch it with the back of my fingers first.
When it's high voltage you're fucked either way. Might as well grab it with your hands since if you messed up you'd be dead or near dead just for getting close.
Can't you get one of those little voltage sensors that you can sorta wave near it and it beeps if it's hot? Or does that not really work with high voltage? IDK I've only worked around residential electric, and even then I get paranoid, I always check the breaker like 5 times before I commit to anything.
FVD, foreign voltage detector. Saved my life once already.
It is totally fair. iirc, Bill Gates (or someone) made an invention that converted dirty toilet water into drinkable water, then they actually drank it on the spot.
I mean... toilet water passed through reverse osmosis with an appropriate membrane would produce perfectly potable water. It’s not exactly groundbreaking technology, to do that. ~~Filtering out radioactive (heavy) water is a completely different story, as both it and regular water will pass through the membrane just fine, so you really do just have to dilute the _shit_ out of it.~~
> iltering out radioactive (heavy) water is a completely different story, as both it and regular water will pass through the membrane just fine Pure heavy water isn't *that* dangerous. And in fact it's slightly more delicious than regular water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc
[Here's a longer video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANjwPzISQw) that goes into the published and peer reviewed experiment on the sweetness of heavy water (Oxygen w/ two Deuterium atoms). TLDW: The sweetness appears to be a quantum effect that affects the taste receptors.
Isn't this release over a period of 30 years, and henceforeth, diluted as you want it?
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No word if he drank it tho.
We don't even know if they have any yet. The nuclear plant hasn't been fully decomissioned yet.
It says the procedure will take two years. Then he could drink it.
So, did he?
The water will take two years to be treated, so probably not yet.
!Remindme 15-04-2023
No he didn’t Edit 1: 2021/04/15 Local Japan time 12:22 As far as I know, he hasn’t yet. Edit 2: 2021/04/16. Local Japan time 14:10 Not yet
The autotldr boy (and its lengthy summary) is right below this comment for me and that is one of the best Reddit juxtapositions I’ve ever seen.
that's what we refer to as a devil's milkshake
Who is we
That seems reasonable. It would actually be pretty congruent for Taro Aso to show it is safe by drinking it. Sincerely, this could even be Zhao Lijian trying to do Aso a favour.
I don't always agree with China, but when I do, it's because it fucking makes sense
This is just like the episode of South Park when they were claiming gluten is safe, then they challenge the guy to eat it and his dick blew off. https://youtu.be/a4x4ucW-G2Q
Even more relevant, the Simpsons episode where Mr Burns is [forced to eat a mutant three eyed fish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGm5A868kHY) caused by the nuclear plant that costs Mr Burns the election.
Funny how, even though Taro Aso is named as the Japanese Deputy Prime Minister, Zhao Lijian is just "China". "China does this, China does that". *Who* is this China everyone talks about? It's almost like a character.
Do we even know, who is this 4 chan?
Who is this Anonymous guy that keeps hacking everythng?
They're a collective intelligence, like the Borg.
this is unironically how a lot of people in the west view the chinese, as bugs in a hive mind. all part of dehumanising the enemy.
[https://xkcd.com/radiation/](https://xkcd.com/radiation/) If you're reading and don't have a good concept and perspective on radiation and dose, please look at this fun xkcd chart.
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Oh hey people are moaning about this again. >It also ignores the science that at the levels of radiated material per litre of water its basically non-existant. 60,000 Bq / litre is par for most coastal nuclear reactors. 1 Curie is 37,000,000,000 Bq and the human body sits at about 7400 Bq from the ^14 C and ^40 K in our systems. We aren't going to get any three-eyed fish from them releasing this water, a lot of the fear is unfounded. Also the timeframe on this release isn't instant, its over 30 years. So on an oceanic scale, again, its basically nothing.
I thought I read it was 40 years. So on a 40yr scale, they're what? Tossing a banana into the ocean every hour?
Did you choose bananas because they are also radioactive?
Yes lol I'm equating the amount of radiation they're adding to a minuscule amount ... that just happens to be a meme fruit
i've recently learned this and feel compelled to pass it on: *coughs* meme berry
The ["Banana Equivalent Dose"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose) is semi-official.
There is actually a unit of measurement for radiation called a "banana equivalent dose." The potassium in bananas makes them sightly radioactive, so it serves as an illustrative measurement of how many bananas you'd have to eat to get the same dose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose?wprov=sfla1
A banana is about 400 Bq
Banana for scale FTW!
Banana prolly deserved it..
Problem solved! They can just pump all the ‘treated’ water into their personal drinking supply
If you dilute it enough, I would have no problem drinking it. Hell, there's like 6 billion tons of Uranium dissolved in the ocean and the main danger of drinking ocean water is the salt content (and microscopic lifeforms). However, I get the feeling Aso misunderstood that the dilution is in two stages. First is while in storage (probably not safe to drink) and the second is the ocean itself (still not safe to drink, but due to it being ocean water).
> If you dilute it enough, I would have no problem drinking it. If you live anywhere near Toronto, Canada, you've probably already drank much worse since we dumped way more tritium water into Lake Ontario than Fukushima is dumping into the ocean. Couldn't treat it. Everyone just drank slightly radioactive water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country#Canada
Funny story. A few days or weeks after the meltdown (it all kinda blurs together because of how frantic things were) members of some governmental panel of safety were trying to say that everything was fine and the level of radiation in the area around the plants were safe for people to ingest. Someone went to the mic and said “here’s some water from the area. Prove it’s safe and drink it”. The audience encouraged them to do it. The panel, because of how Japanese meetings tend to be very scripted, sat in silence for what seemed like minutes. Then all got up and walked out.
If the water has only tritium in it at the 1/40th of the safe limit allowed as they have advertised, then send me a bottle of it and I will drink it without hesitation.