<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cbmuser</author><text>It’s Tritium aka Hydrogen with two neutrons which is part of any water anyway and even part of the human body.&lt;p&gt;Even if they release all of the Tritium water, they will not even cause a minuscule bump in the Tritium concentration of the ocean.&lt;p&gt;Plus, Tritium is a beta emitter and the particles have a range of merely a few micrometers.&lt;p&gt;Releasing that Tritium has never been a health or environmental problem, it has merely been a PR and political problem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-decides-to-release-water-from-Fukushima-plant-into-sea</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>At one point CNN and Greenpeace were saying that the Carbon-14 in particular would &amp;quot;change human DNA&amp;quot;, since the tritium levels would be diluted well below anything people could reasonably define as hazardous [1]. There are 63.6 GBq of Carbon-14 in the tanks total. Sounds like a lot but that actually comes out to 0.4 grams total. This entire amount is generated naturally every ~40 minutes in the atmosphere [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;jamesconca&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;japan-should-release-tritium-contaminated-water-to-the-ocean&amp;#x2F;?sh=1a15a3e0d8ce&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;jamesconca&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;japan-sho...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2020-10-25-greenpeace-mistaken-on-radiocarbon-impact.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2020-10-25-greenpeace-mistake...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-decides-to-release-water-from-Fukushima-plant-into-sea</url></story>