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Should we reduce our fish consumption ?
Experts fear people who eat fish from waters contaminated by a radioactive pollutant discharged by nuclear plants and factories are at a greater risk of developing cancer than was previously thought.
The health risk from exposure to tritium remains low since doses are still within international safety limits.
But scientists are concerned that people who eat fish from waters contaminated by tritium may have received much higher levels of radiation than had been estimated before, according to a report in New Scientist magazine.
The report indicates that tritium is twice as likely to cause cancer as was previously thought.
Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. Vast amounts of the material were released into the atmosphere by nuclear weapons tests in the 1960s, and large quantities are still discharged by nuclear plants
Experts fear people who eat fish from waters contaminated by a radioactive pollutant discharged by nuclear plants and factories are at a greater risk of developing cancer than was previously thought.
The health risk from exposure to tritium remains low since doses are still within international safety limits.
But scientists are concerned that people who eat fish from waters contaminated by tritium may have received much higher levels of radiation than had been estimated before, according to a report in New Scientist magazine.
The report indicates that tritium is twice as likely to cause cancer as was previously thought.
Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. Vast amounts of the material were released into the atmosphere by nuclear weapons tests in the 1960s, and large quantities are still discharged by nuclear plants
