The nuclear generation option

Not quite right. The article says 76 million bananas every hour. The headline is misleading.Forbes is almost alt-right on some topics. If I am going to quote a Forbes article as fact, I would check it thoroughly. FWIW, the calculations about the radioactivity of the typical banana based on the amount of K40 that is likely present are correct. But the dismissal of the concerns cited in his article are all hand waving.There is no safe amount of radiation. As best we know, the risk added by sources of radiation are cumulative. I would also point out that not all forms of radiation are equally deadly as measured in Beq which is merely disintegrations per second. Some radioactive materials accumulate at various portions of the body because they mimic metals that are already present which offsets the effect of dilution if marine life can reconcentrate them. Some emissions (alpha, beta, gamma, neutron are more damaging to the body that others).None of that crap is addressed in the article.

I suspect that you've made an over estimate here. But a source of radiation comparable to 30 minutes of sun is something to be concerned about. And of course you've ignored some of the comments I've made about concentration of metals by sea life among other things.

An extra 30 minutes per day for every person on earth certainly would be appreciable. 30 minutes over a lifetime, not so much.Which brings to mind another way in which not all radioactive material is created equal. The same number of Beq of material with a long half life delivers a higher a higher dose to the body than does a material which decays away quickly.Yet another difference is that sunlight is not an internal body problem with radiation that might accumulate in, say, your thyroid, while some components of reactor fission products are that kind of problem. So just comparing disintegrations per second does not cut it.Look, my point is not that I've discovered a large problem. It is more that the article as written is pretty sloppy and full of handwaving. There is no reason to divide the radiation up into an hourly dose if it is accumulating into the ocean. The issue is the total amount of radioactivity discharged taking into account the half-life of the material.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.