• Abracadaniel [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    lmao I called this last night.

    I would do it. Tritium is a low energy decay, and the amount of decays here is quite small.

    For example, there is roughly 0.0169 g of potassium-40 present in a typical human body, decaying at a rate of approximately 4,430 decays per second.

    The tritium in the water in question is currently at 60 decays per second.

    Also when potassium-40 decays it releases about 100x the energy as a tritium decay. (~1.4 compared to ~0.018 MeV)

    sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium