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> so I imagine it’s cleaned before being discharged.

There's plutonium dust in the silt under the Irish Sea, off the coast from Sellafield. Inhaling a single particle of plutonium dust (much smaller than a 'sliver') can kill you. I think your imagination has misled you.




Just because it’s ‘cleaned’ doesn’t mean it’s perfectly clean after doing so.




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