Reply #20: Detected levels have been reported from multiple areas, but that isn't important

[FBaggins]

People seem to think that there's just random chance here. A reactor somewhere went bad so there could be radiation in our water supply. Government sources are not to be trusted (because they would lie to us if the news were bad), so we feel perfectly justified just imagining any level of danger that our paranoia requires.

If someone changes his oil in western NY and spills a cup of the dirty oil onto the ground, SOME of it will eventually end up in the Chesapeake Bay. But if you see reports of oil levels from around his property... and the local water supply... and the streams in the area... you can be assured that the level huundreds of miles away in VA will be much lower.

The level (for instance) recently reported in a PA water supply was in the single-digit level of pico curies per liter.

That's trillionths of a curie.