[Good beer]

12 year half life… it’s not disappearing fast. But it won’t stay in your body long either

It is a light isotope ,it went up.

 

[charliemeyer007]

You know coal, and other carbon stuff has radioactive C14 in it. Then there is Radon from the rocks underground.

Backgrounder on Tritium, Radiation Protection Limits, and Drinking Water Standards

www.nrc.gov

 

[dmas]

Not the worst thing that could happen. But feds and state knew about this in November and only now is it being announced.

 

[FIGHT TILL DEATH]

Minnesota agencies monitoring radioactive chemical leak in Monticello

The Minnesota Pollution Control agency says the tritium leak hasn't left the facility or contaminated drinking water sources.

www.kare11.com

Heads up Minnesotans.

Radiation exposure hasn’t been part of my preps. Mostly, I just pray that if that plant goes, or bomb is dropped, it takes me out quickly. But, I should at least have something on hand for “minimal” exposure.
Any advice would be greatly appreciate.
I will head over to NBC section, and take a look around.

Just get a mop suit and gasmask and hood so you can evacuate if needed.

 

[country_boy]

Tritium
is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen
I think the whole lighter than air thing applies here.

Not really. Unless something goes really wrong, tritium in a nuclear reactor is disolved in water except for lithium inserted in the reactor specifically to make tritium. In this case, it had to be tritated water Or water with dissolved tritium. The lithium assemblies are only used, to the best of my knowledge, in government owned power reactors- such as TVA plants.

Small amounts are released into the atmosphere from actual nuclear fission.

 

[CONELRAD]

You know coal, and other carbon stuff has radioactive C14 in it. Then there is Radon from the rocks underground.

Yep, tritium and tritiated water are two of the least concerning byproducts of a nuclear power plant. There's probably more activity in the samples from the monitoring wells due to naturally occurring radium/radon than from the spill.

Do you have a geiger counter or iodine? I've heard iodine isn't worth it for older folks. You either screw up your thyroid or eventually get cancer. I think about all one can do in a melt down is evacuate.

KI is most helpful to younger populations. For those over 40, it's only recommended when the internal dose to the thyroid will exceed 500 cGy/ rad.

As far as evacuation, that really depends on the scale of the accident. At Fukushima it's theorized that evacuation stress killed more people than long-term health issues (i.e. cancer) would have, had they not evacuated, or at least had made the evacuation zone much smaller. This is a debate that needs to be had in the emergency planning community and you may well see the EPZ or recommended evacuation zones shrink, or "permissible exposure levels" increase as a result.

 

[ColoradoMinuteMan]

In 20 years we’ll find out all of the ugly details in a Netflix Documentary.

 

[CONELRAD]

In 20 years we’ll find out all of the ugly details in a Netflix Documentary.

You mean like the ones filled with innuendo and sensationalized claims... yet no evidence.

 

[ajole]

Chernobyl! Covid! Sure you believe the government, or any entity tied to them. They are here to take of you. You will be just fine.

Again…..it’s not the government. Independent private firms tested it. They get paid no matter what they say, but if they want to stay in business, they better be right.

So no….I don’t trust the government. But I trust the greed of the guys that tested it.