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In reply to the discussion: 51 Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan Suffering Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Tumors After [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)Blanks states
Although the military has an approach to everything and if the standard procedure doesn't call for checking the water that they take in for desalinization for radioactivity - then unless someone thought to do it, I believe it wouldn't have gotten done.
Blanks,
This lawyer-spun story from the Pacific Ocean off Japan SURE SMELLS FISHY.
The actual water discharged by the Fukushima accident wasn't what was radioactive; it was contaminants IN the water.
Just as in salt water; it's NOT the water itself that tastes salty; but the salt that is dissolved IN the water that tastes salty.
The "radioactive water" from Fukushima wasn't radioactive because the H2O molecules were radioactive. The water was radioactive because of radioactive material that was dissolved IN the water just like with the salt.
When you distill salt water; the still separates the water from the dissolved solids. In the case of seawater, the still separates the salt water into water and salt.
In the case of Fukushima water with dissolved radioactive material, the still will separate the water and the radioactive material that was dissolved in it.
It's at THIS point where we find the REALLY BRAINLESS anti-nukes because they will claim that the water "caught radioactivity" as if radioactivity was "contagious". Those anti-nuke have a NON-FUNCTIONAL cerebral cortex since they don't know that radioactivity is NOT "contagious".
I refer all the DUMMIES that might think it is to the book "Physics for Future Presidents" by Professor Richard Muller of University of California - Berkeley Dept. of Physics. There is a section in that book where Professor Muller explains that radioactivity is NOT CONTAGIOUS.
So the USS Ronald Reagan's distillation equipment should have removed the radioactive contamination material with the salt from the ships potable water.
The timescales for these diseases are also suspicious. I would take this story with a good dose of salt; but not salt from the Reagan's still; that might have radioactive contaminants in with it.
PamW