Is the water we drink in Paris dangerously radioactive?

Last week, the French news agency AFP followed the weekly satirical The chained Duck reporting that "6.4 million French people drink contaminated water". They were wrong.

I am anxious to rebadure the 6.4 million people who may read this that there is nothing to worry about. It was all the result of a misunderstanding.

Le Figaro, which was among the many respectable news agencies that adopted an alarmist line in response to the initial report, today explains that the map at the center of the case, conducted by the Association for the Control of Radioactivity in the West, very serious and respectable, was meant to show what could occur in the event of a nuclear accident.

The water we drink in Paris is actually very good.
Summer press rooms, their journalists cooked by the heat wave, fed up with Blustering Boris and Rugy, resigned, decided that the idea of ​​6.4 million Parisians shining in the dark trying to stay calm by swallowing buckets of H2O to tritium was simply too good.

Soon, a website interviewed a woman claiming to work in a large Parisian hospital, telling listeners not to drink tap water. The same impeccable source claimed that a police bulletin warned hospitals in the capital and surrounding areas to prepare for an increase in the number of people poisoned.

The reality comes back
The Parisian hospital authorities, the police, the regional health authority and the company supplying water to the French capital have all reacted with great indignation. The tap water is perfectly drinkable, this was the message.

Even the badociation that produced the card is a little indignant, claiming that she was not responsible for the rumor and that she had never had the Intended to spread panic. They simply wanted to launch a debate and alert everyone about the potentially dangerous impact of a nuclear accident on Paris' drinking water supply.

To put it in perspective, if French drinking water starts to run at 100 becquerels per liter, the authorities are forced to look for the origin of the radioactivity. A becquerel is an atomic transformation. You have 60 in your average liter of milk, a five-year-old gives 600, a big adult like me counts for 15,000 becquerels.

Beware of these damn bananas
Drinking water in the Paris region is currently estimated at 10.9 becquerels per liter, so low that it is virtually undetectable and ten times lower than the level of alert reported by the World Health Organization. the health.

according to Le Figaro, a kilo of bananas is much more dangerous, because bananas contain potbadium which is much more radioactive than the tritium present in the water supply.