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Re: "Tritium on Ice"



Title: RE: "Tritium on Ice"
 

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Maybe we should ask Dave Martin, nuclear policy adviser to the Sierra Club of Canada. In the article appended below, it says that the proposed nuclear fusion reactor ITER "would operate for 20 years, using 15 to 20 kilograms of tritium. That's enough to kill 3million to 4 million people if the minimum lethal dose were ingested by each person. "

3 to 4 million people? THAT'S PEANUTS, when you consider that the lead used to manufacture automobile batteries each year would be sufficient to provide a lethal dose to everyone on earth! Of course, you may have a problem getting it distributed properly to do the job, but isn't that also the case with tritium?