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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 10:12 AM
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7. Nice strawman.
Edited on Tue May-11-10 10:19 AM by Statistical
:rofl: Everyone (at least everyone on Earth) has been drinking tritinated water for centuries. Tritium is naturally occuring. Occurs in low concentration but it does occur. The thing you don't understand if that our planet is highly radioactive. Radiation in the air, the water, the ocean, the soil. Event the radioactive stuff makes MORE tadioactive stuff. Uranium decays to radium (far worse) which decays to radon (even worse). The amount of radioactive exposure you get from the Earth is massive compared to any "potential" exposure from a nuclear plant.

Far worse stuff in drinking water than tritium. By your "logic" children shouldn't drink any water. Granted they will die of dehydration rather quickly but at least they will avoid tritium, radium, lead, mercury, arsenic, etc which might kill them someday.

Better to fear the "scary unknown" then real quantifiable dangers.
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