Fukushima Bananapocalypse
Jan. 29th, 2014 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
Imagine if an average-sized freighter, like any of the ones routinely waiting in English Bay, loaded with about 800 40' shipping containers of bananas were to sink off the coast of Japan. Would you be worried? Based on the amount of radioactive potassium in the average banana, our hypothetical banana boat is the radioactive equivalent to all the radioactive water leaked so far.
Sources:
- Photo: Frank Kehren
- Forbes:\240The Fukushima Radiation Leak Is Equal To 76 Million Bananas
- How many bananas in one case? (90-100)
- How many cases of bananas in one 40' container? (1080)
76,000,000 ÷ 1,080 ÷ 90 = 781.9\240
Source: http://www.mbarrick.net/blog/140129/fukushima-bananapocalypse
