Comment on Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are OverparentComments−wmeddie13yA quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha shows that it would be 292,000,000 L Which would fill 116 Olympic-sized swimming pools.−ovi25613yThanks, I can totally visualize that arbitrary number of Olympic pools now!−a_bonobo13yWikipedia says:The volume of the Atlantic with its adjacent seas is 354,700,000 cubic kilometers1 cubic kilometer is 1 000 000 000 000 liters, so 354,700,000 cubic kilometers is 354,700,000,000,000,000,000 l.1 ton of water is 907 l water, and Fukushima leaks 450 tons a day, that's 408,150 l.Divided and multiplied by 100 that's 1.3*10^(-13)%.Keep in mind, as I said above, that this water itself is a dilution of radioactivity.
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A quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha shows that it would be 292,000,000 L Which would fill 116 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Thanks, I can totally visualize that arbitrary number of Olympic pools now!
Wikipedia says:
1 cubic kilometer is 1 000 000 000 000 liters, so 354,700,000 cubic kilometers is 354,700,000,000,000,000,000 l.
1 ton of water is 907 l water, and Fukushima leaks 450 tons a day, that's 408,150 l.
Divided and multiplied by 100 that's 1.3*10^(-13)%.
Keep in mind, as I said above, that this water itself is a dilution of radioactivity.