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		antientropic on March 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images > Fukushima will be raising ocean radiation for a long time, just one example. Will it? The ocean is very, very big. Contaminated water from Fukushima is a literal drop in a bucket.

ddingus on March 4, 2021 [–]

Already is. Drops over say, 10 to 100k year timelines add right up.

The solution to pollution is dilution.

I say that in jest, because dilution involving radioactivity works on much longer timelines than many things do.

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