Isabelle Boemeke

You can go on the International Atomic Energy Agency's website and you can see exactly how much radiation there is coming out of

of the pipe and then how much radiation is being detected right down 10 meters away or whatever it is.

And so you see that water being diluted in real time.

Now, this is what's interesting.

You mentioned China making a big deal out of this.

The amount of tritium that's being disposed from the Fukushima accident is actually lower than what is permitted in regular operations for Chinese nuclear power plants.

In other words, the Chinese nuclear power plants are putting more tritiated water into the environment in a normal operation than the water from Fukushima that's being put into the ocean.

Because of a disaster.

So there's a bit of a, you know...

An interesting dynamic happening here.

So, I mean, you would need to drink basically a whole swimming pool worth of tritiated water.

You know, and you would have to be all in one sitting kind of thing.

Yeah, it's basically impossible.

And here's the thing.

There is no evidence as well.

And I know that doesn't mean that it's never happened, but we have no evidence of somebody dying from being exposed to tritium.

Tritium has actually a very short biological half-life, meaning it stays in our system for like 10 to 12 days.

So that's why you would have to drink a ton of this treated water on one go to actually get sick from it.

But I say all these things with always the understanding that I don't want to minimize the accident.

Ideally, this would not have happened.