its that doggone tritium again - Mass. nuke plant event

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


Traces of radioactive tritium have been found in groundwater near the Pilgrim Nuclear Power plant. The levels are still within federal safety limits, and a spokesman says there is no threat to the public. The plant is owned by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., a company that also owns Vermont Yankee. That facility has seen a succession of problems ever since a tritium leak there was discovered in January. Those leaks prompted Massachusetts officials and critics of the Pilgrim plant to call for stepped up monitoring of the Plymouth, Mass., facility. Six new monitoring wells were dug, and last week the first results were made public. Those results show a gradually increasing level of radioactive tritium in the monitoring test wells, though the level of contaminated water is still below the level the Environmental Protection Agency regards as safe. The groundwater from the monitoring wells registered 11,072 picocuries per liter while the EPA’s safe limit is set at 20,000 picocuries per liter. “This does not in any way affect public health or safety,” said David Tarantino, a company spokesman. “But we certainly want to discover the cause.” The company has assembled a team of experts to solve the problem, Tarantino said.
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tritium, the curse of nuke plants and a health bane to their neighbors

And they come up with a level of tritium under the so-called safe limit. I wonder if they needed some more monitoring wells dug to bring the average down from the other wells? I wonder what the distribution of tritium levels is across all the wells, not just the six new ones? And have those tests been replicated by someone without a financial interest in Pilgrim?

Oh well, it's not like a company would lie just to protect its own bottom line, so I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.

nt

unless you think Scientific American is some organ of the nuclear industry

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

edited for typing too fast bungle

also

coal toxin and nuke toxin are not the same

the only thing they have in common is that they both sicken and kill living things

...toxins.


And if you'd read the bloody article linked you'd have known that. Instead you just provided proof positive for what I've long suspected. You have absolutely no interest in the truth, just your agenda.

It's slightly over 50% of a limit that was set FAR below background radiation levels.

Arnie Gunderson should be showing up in a day or so to tell the media some new scare stories. Better than the old stories about LSD Babies!

--d!

it becomes a real danger. Thank you once again for your post showing how careful nuclear power plants are to prevent danger to the population. You keep us informed about the successes of nuclear plant safety very well.