What If You Drank Radioactive Tritium?

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Tritium. It's that mysterious glowing element found in air, water and now inside you. That's right. You're going take this radioactive isotope and chug it down. So if you drank tritium, how could your body power a nuclear reactor? What would happen to your DNA? And would you glow in the dark?

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00:00 What If You Drank Radioactive Tritium?
00:48 What is tritium?
02:24 Consuming the isotope
03:39 Eating phosphorus-rich food
04:16 Could you generate power?
04:52 Could it already be inside you?

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