Another silly question. As is known that Tritium is bioaccumulative to the point of probably acting as a persistent organic pollutant, why they don't use biology to concentrate and eventually remove it from the tanks?. Or to keep it safely trapped in the tanks?
Making dioxins with tritium atoms in place of hydrogen would probably be a bad idea, though.
What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Health_risks
“HTO has a short biological half-life in the human body of 7 to 14 days, which both reduces the total effects of single-incident ingestion and precludes long-term bioaccumulation of HTO from the environment.”
> Because some people are concerned about biological accumulation of OBT in the environment, we briefly summarize the behavior of OBT in the ecosystem. Scientific data about the environmental behavior of OBT are still limited, however, it is clear that biological accumulation is not the case for tritium including OBT.
Yes, you can beat the biological half-life if you eat whopping doses of the stuff. That's... not a common situation.
If you ate said factory worker, you'd be back to normal in a couple weeks, as long as you didn't keep eating factory workers.
Drinking (or inhaling) 50,000 gallons of the (undiluted, so best case in terms of volume) water from storage tanks would probably get you with kidney failure somewhat before the tritium does.
Huh? It has a half-life of 12 years.