In fact, given the choice, I would rather drink the water directly out of the Savannah's holding tank than breathe the exhaust of a bunker-burning cargo ship.
While I couldn't find the numbers to back this up, I suspect that unfiltered water from the Mississippi River is more radioactive, thanks to the lingering fallout from nuclear weapons tests.
An item can be classified as low-level nuclear waste if it exits a controlled nuclear facility with lower levels of radioactivity than the same sort of item found in general commerce. A paper hospital gown discarded from a radiation therapy room is LLW, even if it is less radioactive than another paper gown from another part of the same hospital that had pureed banana spilled on it.
Gallon simply does not have a conversion factor to Becquerels. The total volume of waste released tells us absolutely nothing about the actual or potential environmental damage that release represents.
In fact, given the choice, I would rather drink the water directly out of the Savannah's holding tank than breathe the exhaust of a bunker-burning cargo ship.
While I couldn't find the numbers to back this up, I suspect that unfiltered water from the Mississippi River is more radioactive, thanks to the lingering fallout from nuclear weapons tests.
An item can be classified as low-level nuclear waste if it exits a controlled nuclear facility with lower levels of radioactivity than the same sort of item found in general commerce. A paper hospital gown discarded from a radiation therapy room is LLW, even if it is less radioactive than another paper gown from another part of the same hospital that had pureed banana spilled on it.
Gallon simply does not have a conversion factor to Becquerels. The total volume of waste released tells us absolutely nothing about the actual or potential environmental damage that release represents.