[Restorer]

I suspect your approach is somewhat impractical for irrigation water, which is what the vast majority of this water is used for. Or perhaps the radioactivity will settle out in the slow-moving stretches of the rivers once they reach the plains. I don't know what the possible consequences of a massive accumulation of radioactivity in the riverbeds of India/Pakistan might be.

[Centurion2000]

I suspect your approach is somewhat impractical for irrigation water, which is what the vast majority of this water is used for. Or perhaps the radioactivity will settle out in the slow-moving stretches of the rivers once they reach the plains. I don't know what the possible consequences of a massive accumulation of radioactivity in the riverbeds of India/Pakistan might be.

Irrigation could complicate things, true, but radioactive water decontamination is actually pretty easy compared to say strontium or iodine-131 removal.

One complication in using the irrigated water could be to concentrate long half-life fallout into crops. Depending on the elements involved it can get pretty nasty. Fallout in the riverbeds shouldn't actually be much of a problem as the water would be shielding the environment from alpha and beta decay. Of course if the riverbed is disturbed that's another issue to think about.

[Arkinsaw]

I don't know what the possible consequences of a massive accumulation of radioactivity in the riverbeds of India/Pakistan might be.

I don't know either, but I bet none of them are real good.

[Arkinsaw]

I don't know what the possible consequences of a massive accumulation of radioactivity in the riverbeds of India/Pakistan might be.

I don't know either, but I bet none of them are real good.