Posted on 02/07/2016 7:25:32 AM PST by Enlightened1
Two years after being fined for falsifying safety records, nine months after a transformer exploded at the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor just 37 miles from midtown Manhattan, and two months after Entergy - the plant's operator - shut down the Unit 2 reactor after a major power outage cut power to several control rods (when the company assured that no radioactivity was released into the environment), this afternoon NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said he learned that "radioactive tritium-contaminated water" had leaked into the groundwater at the nuclear facility in Westchester County.
Cuomo, in a letter Saturday to the state Health Department and the Department of Environmental Conservation, called for the probe into the Indian Point NPP after he said Entergy, the plant's owner, reported "alarming levels of radioactivity" at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent.
It is unclear if the facility was taking a page out of the Fukushima "crisis response" book, or was being honest when it said that the contamination has not migrated off site "and as such does not pose an immediate threat to public health." For the sake of millions of downriver New Yorkers, we hope it was the latter.
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This is what happens when you have a finance guy as CEO of an energy company.
Plant is about 15 miles NE of me.
I guess no one in New York City minds radioactive water?
An army of giant ants has been seen heading for Manhattan.
Takes the heat off of Flint Michigan for the EPA.
Almost every big corporation is in the hands of “finance” guys...
Disregard that “funny” taste in your drinking water.......
I hear it doesnt get dark there any more.........
Well if Trump’s plane starts taking a wide detour around this, we’ll wonder....
This sounds way overblown.
The only way you could get Tritium in groundwater is a breach in the primary coolant line.
You would have much bigger problems than Tritium.
Tritium is created in very small amounts from neutron bombardment of primary coolant.
Beta emitter with 1/2 life of 12 years.
Primary coolant also contains Strontium 90...much more dangerous. Product of RadioBarium breakdown.
I have a tritium illuminated watch!
Need I panic?
Or any company.
Every bean is counted, but preventative maintenance is an unnecessary expense.
Who? THEM! ?
I have watches with Tritium on the face.
Have had for years.
Just to check I turned off all the lights
And I am not glowing.
VT closed it’s Yankee plant for a similar reason. I am anxious to see how their snow covered solar panels take up the slack.......
Yes, about sooooo many thing!
Are there many calories in heavy water?
Groundwater flow patterns would be helpful (e.g., flow rate, direction). Does it flow toward drinking water sources? Or bodies of water using for fishing? Or for watering crops?
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