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shady8x t1_jdk8ypv wrote

From the article:

>Valerie Myers, a health physicist with the NRC, told WCCO last week that the amount of tritium that's in the water is negligible.

>"If we look at the dose impact of something like this, it would be a fraction of a milligram. I'm talking 0.00-something milligrams. The average person will get 300 milligram in a year just from the sun, the ground, everything," Myers said.

So the radioactive danger from this specific leak is much less than just stepping outside your house on a normal day.

Last time such a leak happened they reported it 1 day after it happened and the danger of the release was considered such non-issue by those that learned about it, that journalists which constantly seek out anything to terrify the public with, took 4 months to even bother reporting on something that was made public 4 months ago.

Now that said, what the fuck is wrong with those morons? Stop cutting corners and do some proper repairs. Not to mention the danger of an actually dangerous leak, repeated accidents are gonna make people terrified about what else is close to breaking at this power plant, and with good reason.

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phoenixgsu t1_jdk6tjg wrote

I work in the industry. India is pretty bad about quality systems and regulatory conformance. There's a book called Bottle of Lies that goes into how bad it is. Companies in India are still subject to FDA law if it's on the market here in the US. If the law was followed this wouldn't have happened because the regulations stipulate what is required for good manufacturing practices, so it shouldn't have bacteria in it at all. Even if it did for some reason it should have been caught by sterility testing but it seems like they didn't do that or falsified the records.

FDA needs to crack down on overseas manufacturers.

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