[ExI] Fukushima now officially an emergency

[Anders Sandberg]

On 05/08/2013 19:01, BillK wrote:
> So the question now is how much radioactive water can the Pacific Ocean absorb?

Loads. It has a volume of 2.8 billion cubic kilometres. At 0.0000033 g 
uranium per kilogram of water, that is 180 million kilograms of uranium. 
That is still 1.3 million kilograms of uranium 235 if you just count 
that. Any human reactor, even if dumped straight in, is insignificant 
compared to this.

The issue is mixing. You don't want a lot of active isotopes near your 
coast and your fisheries.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University

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