# Very pure water dangerous to drink?

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**Created:** [February 17, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-pure-water-dangerous-to-drink/959706 "2022-02-17T22:32:54Z")\
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This reminds me of Randall Munroe asking his friend (who worked at a nuclear power plant) what would happen if he tried to go swimming in the pools where they stored spent nuclear fuel. His friend thought for a bit and then said “you’d die from the gunshot wounds.”

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