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Originally Posted by photon
And that's assuming that the purification methods used don't reduce iodine and other elements, radioactive and otherwise, active carbon removes iodine, but I don't know if active carbon is used in city scale water filtration.
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Reverse osmosis filtration is the only thing that gets rid of most radioactive elements in water. From what I have read on the web, activated carbon filters will work until they reach their load capacity. Not going to happen any time soon at a municipal level.