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Comment by ars

> slightly radioactive steam

For anyone worried about this, the longest lived unstable isotope of oxygen (that is heavier than stable oxygen) has a half life of 26 seconds. Hydrogen can become deuterium which is stable, and finally tritium which is not.

Tritium has a long half life of 12 years, but is low energy and very easily shielded (just don't eat it).

There is very very little tritium - first you'd have to make deuterium (there isn't much), and then a deuterium would have to become a tritium, i.e. a rare event on top of a rare event.

parent ars 4 years ago

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