51 Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan Suffering Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Tumors After

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34. I wonder how long it would take...

To determine that there was a hole in the permeable membrane.

A properly functioning reverse osmosis water purification system keeps out extremely small particles, so is it possible that the 'screen' was compromised in which case it might take a while to detect (depending on the detection method) that it wasn't working correctly. If the detection is done by taste it might take a while before anyone notices a taste difference. Since a huge volume of water is stored it would slowly mix with the existing purified water before anyone noticed. Even if a hole in the permeable membrane was noticed almost immediately - I'd be surprised if they dumped out a slightly diluted mixture of purified water since they have to treat the water for microorganisms anyway (which would be a bigger concern than a lightly salted water supply).

If that's the case, there may be something to this. Of course I'm just speculating, but if there were a hole in the membrane and a mixture of radioactive and fuel/lubricant chemicals were allowed into the water supply even for a brief period of time the combination of toxic chemicals and radioactive materials would compromise the immune system of the host and that would better explain the symptoms that others are saying are not caused typically by radiation poisoning.

Of course if that's the case - the liability really isn't the utility company, but rather the manufacturer of the reverse osmosis machine and the folks involved in maintaining the system.