Drinking water standards allow 1200 TIMES more Tritium than Strontium, Because They Can't Do Anything About the Tritium

Because they cannot do anything about the Tritium.....just make the MAC large.

Drinking water standards allow 1200 TIMES more Tritium than Strontium, Because They Can't Do Anything About the Tritium

This table sums it up nicely.

Note how Natural Radionuclides have a very low MAC

But the stuff that man makes....even the lowest MAC are 25 times higher.    hmmmm

This comes from Health Canada, and it's a great reference and great read.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/radiological_para-radiologiques/index-eng.php

From a reader.....health effects of Tritium
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/356082/3591167/1247623695253/health_effects_tritium_bertell.pdf?token=anPPkmv4QYTnYdrozt0QogVwO%2B0%3D

Table of Contents

• Part I: Overview and Application
• 1.0 Guidelines
• 2.0 Executive summary
  • 2.1 Health effects
  • 2.2 Exposure
  • 2.3 Treatment
• 3.0 Application of the guideline
  • 3.1 Monitoring
  • 3.2 Gross alpha and beta measurements
    • 3.2.1 International considerations
  • 3.3 Radon-specific considerations
• Part II: Science and Technical Considerations
• 4.0 Identity, use, and sources in the environment
  • 4.1 Natural radionuclides
    • 4.1.1 Radon
    • 4.1.2 Natural radionuclides from human activities
    • 4.1.3 Cosmogenic radionuclides
  • 4.2 Artificial Radionuclides
    • 4.2.1 Fallout from nuclear weapons testing
    • 4.2.2 Emissions from nuclear reactors
    • 4.2.3 Other sources of artificial radionuclides
• 5.0 Exposure
  • 5.1 Radon
• 6.0 Analytical methods
  • 6.1 Lead-210
  • 6.2 Radium-226
  • 6.3 Total uranium
  • 6.4 Tritium
  • 6.5 Strontium-90
  • 6.6 Iodine-131
  • 6.7 Cesium-137
  • 6.8 Radon
  • 6.9 Gross alpha and gross beta activity measurements
• 7.0 Treatment technology
  • 7.1 Municipal scale
  • 7.2 Residential scale
• 8.0 Health effects
  • 8.1 Dose concepts and units
  • 8.2 Health effects from radiation exposure
    • 8.2.1 Radon
• 9.0 Classification and assessment
  • 9.1 Summation formula
  • 9.2 Lower limit of detection
  • 9.3 Chemical limits
• 10.0 Rationale
• 11.0 References
• Appendix A: Calculated Concentrations for selected radionuclides
• Appendix B: Glossary of terms and units, conversion factors, and acronyms
• Appendix C: Provincial/territorial monitoring surveys
• Appendix D: Summary paragraphs for radionuclides with MACs

A contributor in the comments left this link:  Don't worry it is not a WHoremesis snow job, but recalculated effective dose in mSv, from energy dose in Gray.    End result, Canada allows 7000 Bq/L of tritium, but to achieve ONLY 1 mSv per year, that max should be reduced to 350 Bq/L

Health Effects of Tritium

Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH 

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/356082/3591167/1247623695253/health_effects_tritium_bertell.pdf?token=anPPkmv4QYTnYdrozt0QogVwO%2B0%3D