Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy.  Today’s Topic: Nuclear Radiation

craigshieldsPosted on March 5, 2015 Posted in Nuclear

Question:  How many bequerels per cubic meter of seawater is safe?  Hold on.  Wait a second.  What’s a bequerel?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance:  As my colleague Mike Conley writes:  Fear and paranoia are the two most common forms of radiation sickness.  (Part of the answer)  The Fukushima Cs-137 in California coastal water adds about 5 becquerels per cubic meter of seawater. Clean seawater normally contains 1400 Bqs. per cubic meter.

 

 

 

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One comment on “Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy.  Today’s Topic: Nuclear Radiation”

1. Cameron Atwood says:

   April 9, 2015 at 10:30 am

   Another way to think about that math is Fukushima Cesium adds 5/1400 to California coastal waters after a journey of dilution exceeding 5,000 miles. Where was your fish caught?

   We may not be suffering significant direct risk strolling and swimming our local beaches, but the radiation impacts of the failures and leakage at Fukushima (which are ongoing) should not be minimized.

   This is a harsh lesson that we (and the rest of humanity) need to learn now and act upon. God help the Japanese.