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EX500rider

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30. The Chernobyl disaster was the big release of Strontium-90.
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 10:23 PM
Jan 2019
The Chernobyl disaster released roughly 10 PBq, or about 5% of the core inventory, of strontium-90 into the environment. The Fukushima Daiichi disaster released 0.1-1 PBq of strontium-90 in the form of contaminated cooling water into the Pacific Ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90
Over $5000 per pound. Crazy. n/t OnlinePoker Jan 2019 #1
@ $5000 a pound, you got to wonder if he was more interested in the radioactive cesium in it W T F Jan 2019 #3
Don't forget the Strontium-90. roamer65 Jan 2019 #21
Why? FBaggins Jan 2019 #31
Yes, that's ridiculous. That would be something like $100 for a single piece of tuna sashimi. Nitram Jan 2019 #4
I seen this happen plenty of times. paleotn Jan 2019 #9
True. I'm reading that the winning bidder competes with one other bidder, and he lost to him last Nitram Jan 2019 #28
Wouldn't the fish spoil before they could sell much of it? Owl Jan 2019 #18
no..... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #20
nothing more puke-worthy Blues Heron Jan 2019 #24
GOP testicals bring good luck and great health to those..... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #25
heh heh! Blues Heron Jan 2019 #27
15-16 year old tuna, should be illegal to fish/sell mature breeders. Sunlei Jan 2019 #2
The Bluefin will be economically extinct within a decade Submariner Jan 2019 #5
This simply saddens me. c-rational Jan 2019 #6
This is disgusting if you think it through. PatrickforO Jan 2019 #7
God, I feel like weeping. This is a crime PatrickforO Jan 2019 #8
+1 violetpastille Jan 2019 #17
Only positive I see is the publicity brings a spot-light to the Tunas plight. Sunlei Jan 2019 #29
Capitalism, you've got to love it elmac Jan 2019 #10
Jeez, I hope he's "satisfied with the quality of the fish." Vinca Jan 2019 #11
The name of my live aboard marina before Irma. tavernier Jan 2019 #12
For what it is worth, and this is not to defend the practice, pangaia Jan 2019 #13
Sadly, the higher the price, higher the fishing Apollyonus Jan 2019 #14
As with whaling, Japan would ignore it. OnlinePoker Jan 2019 #16
That price was ceremonial only..... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #26
Prestige howardmappel Jan 2019 #15
No one with any functioning brain cells would celebrate such a thing...not even the one selling it pecosbob Jan 2019 #19
A lot of money for a radioactive fish. roamer65 Jan 2019 #22
The Chernobyl disaster was the big release of Strontium-90. EX500rider Jan 2019 #30
The ocean called, it's running out of tuna. betsuni Jan 2019 #23
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