Posted on 03/18/2023 4:12:04 AM PDT by fluorescence
Do you need a permit to hunt mutated wildlife?
Tritium? Does anyone know what that is? They don’t know enough about it to know it is only harmful for a short period of time. Tritium is hydrogen that has 2 neutrons. Usually hydrogen doesn’t have any neutrons but a lot of hydrogen has 1 neutron. It is called deuterium. It is very stable. Lots of deuterium was created during the Big Bang that is still around today and will be when the Big Crunch happens. But Tritium is unstable. The second neutron decays to a proton and releases an electron that is relatively harmless. The half life of tritium is something like 12 years and the electrons that come out are very low energy and don’t do much harm. They called that electron a beta particle before they knew it was an electron. Uranium gives of alpha particles which are whole helium nuclei, 2 protons and 2 neutrons. Alpha particles are massive and hurt life hell on a microscopic scale. Beta particles are like a wad of paper compared to alpha particles which are like bullets.
Tritium is formed in the atmosphere by cosmic rays interacting with hydrogen in water molecules.
Tritium is nothing, a low energy beta emitter. Rickover once drank a glass full to show how harmless it is.
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Alphas are massive, but also easily stopped. As in, a sheet of paper will stop them. Your clothes will stop them. If they're released inside your body, the surrounding tissue stops them and can be damaged.
Umm, without numbers this is meaningless, at best. Usually, this is the sort of crappola 60 Minutes lies about.
Everything in the universe is radioactive. Your urine is.
What matters is how much of what type, not gallons.
Should not care about what happens in 3rd world moslem countries...
Let them glow in the dark...
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