Going on a resort with an outdoor pool

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2012-07-03 11:16

Our family (with two little kids) are going to a resort in BC Canada (lots of rain) with an awesome outdoor pool with slides. It's too late to cancel the trip without loosing the deposit but I start getting worried about the radiation in outdoor pools. Is there really much risk compared to indoor pools? My husband says we are drinking rainwater anyway and eating produce in rainy BC so we can't avoid the exposure any way and why worry. We also love to go to the beach and swim in the lakes. Is it also risky? I tried to ignore all this and just want to enjoy our normal life but I'm still concerned. I feel like I'm only the crazy one worrying about this kind of stuff. Thanks.

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I am staunchly anti-nuke and

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2012-07-04 10:31.

I am staunchly anti-nuke and concerned about fallout and contamination of food here in N. America, but I gotta give the thumbs up to pool adventures.

The health benefits of endorphins from enjoying life and vitamin D synthesis from a little sunshine dwarf any minute amount of radiation that might be in the pool.

When you get home, vacuum the house real well and buy a hepa filter - because you are exposed to that environment more than any other - and you are actually in control of that.

Enjoy life - it's the best radioprotective out there!

It is almost certain that the

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2012-07-04 10:03.

It is almost certain that the resort has to carefully filter and condition the water in the pool and that will greatly reduce anything harmful. I doubt you have anything to worry about and I would not be concerned in the least if I were visiting there.

Watch out for bears! :)

Pool

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2012-07-04 09:53.

I am using my outdoor pool ,although I use zeolite in my pool filter. I would not worry about your vacation as brawm has indicated by there testing the radiation deposition in air /rain has been at a non detectable level for some time now .As to your husbands point I have to agree at some point i have had to accept i will be exposed to traces of radionuclides from Japan's Fukushima daiichi it's in the dust I breath the food I eat to some degree .no hiding from it just remember we lucked out to only be dealing "trace " amounts so we must thank the poor souls (fukushima fifty?)who saved the world from some way way worse outcomes...tdm