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Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows
mdsolar writes "The tritium leak into ground water at Vermont Yankee has now tested at 775,000 picocuries per liter, 37 times higher than the federal drinking water standard. 'Despite the much higher reading, an NRC spokeswoman said Thursday there was nothing to fear. "There's not currently, nor is there likely to be, an impact on public health or safety or the environment," the NRC's Diane Screnci said in an interview. She had maintained previously that the Environmental Protection Agency drinking water safety limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter had an abundance of caution built into it. ... The National Academy of Sciences said in 2005 that any exposure to ionizing radiation from an isotope like tritium elevates the risk of cancer, though it also said with small exposures, the risk would be low. ' At what level should the NRC shut down the troubled plant?"
Haha, nice. Somebody mod parent funny please.
Actually it is 1024, that is why on harddrive they have that little text saying that their measure of a byte isn't the true measure.
When it comes to computers and memory, they don't follow the 1000 mark for true measurements.
1024 kilobytes to a megabyte
1024 megabytes to a gigabyte
1024 gigabytes to a terabyte
1024 terabytes to a pedabyte and so on.
Why 1024 do you ask? Cause computers work in binary and there are 8 bits to a byte and it goes from there with the counting. 1024 is actually 2 to the 8th power (2^8)