Cyclonitron t1_jdj5epq wrote
Reply to comment by withoutapaddle in Xcel Energy to power down Monticello nuclear plant early after more radioactive water leaks out by VaccumSaturdays
> The irony of all the panic is that if it DID reach the Mississippi, it would be diluted even more by billions of gallons of water as it went through the state and country, making it less radiation that eating a banana once a year...
The sad irony is that the Mississippi is already so polluted if the radioactive water actually did reach it it would probably reduce the pollution on a whole.
withoutapaddle t1_jdj7r29 wrote
Well the Monticello NPP is pretty close to the beginning of the Mississippi, compared to its entire run through the US, (it is significantly before even Minneapolis/St.Paul), so the river is actually quite clean up there in comparison to its state by the time it hits the Gulf.
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