Ever since 1946, there has been nuclear waste that has been dumped into both the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. Most of the dumping has been from the government and what has thought to been from creating nuclear weapons. Right now, we have 29-60 dumping sites that pollute nuclear waste into the ocean. Although the dumping has been here for many years, there is still testing as to whether it will be near San Francisco and if it will and or is contaminating our fisheries.
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Dumping into the Oceans
Uranium: 22,000,000 trillion becquerels
Potassium: 407,400,000,000 trillion becquerels
Carbon: 143,000,000 trillion becquerels
Rubidium: 87, 700,000,000 trillion becquerels
Tritium: 370,000 trillion becquerels
Total: 8,125,370,000 trillion becquerels
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Becquerel- The SI derived unit used to measure the rate of radioactive decay. When the nucleus of an atom emits nucleons (protons and/or neutrons) and is thereby transformed into a different nucleus, decay has occurred. A decay rate of one becquerel for a given quantity means there is one such atomic transformation per second.
Radiation in the Ocean Right Now:
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