Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites !

Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites

'You got pipes that have been buried underground for 30 or 40 years, and they've never been inspected,' whistleblower says


Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites - US news - Environment - msnbc.com
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43475479/ns/us_news-environment/t/radioactive-tritium-leaks-found-us-nuke-sites/

The Associated Press
updated 6/21/2011 5:48:09 AM ET 2011-06-21

BRACEVILLE, Ill. — Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.

Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants.

Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard — sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.

While most leaks have been found within plant boundaries, some have migrated offsite. But none is known to have reached public water supplies.

At three sites — two in Illinois and one in Minnesota — leaks have contaminated drinking wells of nearby homes, the records show, but not at levels violating the drinking water standard.

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massive nuclear leaks from our power plants in 30 years.

This lax maintainence is absolutely intolerable.

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Palo Alto Calif., and two guys at a booth near me were laughing their butts off over the fact that the barrels of radioactive stuff from nuke plants that their firm had dumped were probably thoroughly rotted away near the Farollones Islands.

The nuke plants are poisoning us, one and all. Breathe air? You' have taken the radioactive waste of our neuke plants... Eat fish? You have consumed in the radioactive waste of the nuke plants. Drink water while living near any of the major nuke installations? Same thing...

The whole industry would fold overnight if it weren't for the Political Class doing everything they can to see to it that the nuke industry gets the billions of dollars that they need. Obama has already promised the nuclear people, like GE, that they will be able to have some fifty plus in loans soon. Wall Street wants no part of the liability for offering money to these nefarious people. So our Federal government does it for them.

Think of what fifty billion plus woul d do for the states now in default on their budgets. When Ahnold asked little Tim Geithner for a twenty billion dollar loan for the state of California, he was told no, not affordable.

But the Titans of Toxicity are given over over two times that amount. To poison us. And it is the most expensive form of en ergy out there. Add in the huge numbers of death through cancer, and you realize how ineffective, and how expensive this industry really is.

it is..

There's a simple solution to this alleged seepage of alleged radioactive material into alleged groundwater. Let's see if we can solve this Wheel of Fortune-style:

St_p M_asur_ng Rad_oact_v_t_ L_v_ls.

Care to buy a vowel?

"bankrupt"

kick