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300 tons is 80,000 gallons. The ocean is 187,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons. And, it's not "less than a banana"; it's less than one twentieth of a banana.

We carpet bombed the oceans with nuclear weapons in the 1950s, which created tritium levels we can still track regionally today. Nobody thinks it's a great thing that Fukushima happened, but the water thing is probably not in the top 5 concerns.



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