400,000 gallons of radioactive water leak from Minnesota nuclear plant

CBS News ^ | March 17, 2023

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””That’s about six or seven gasoline tank trucks worth, to put it in perspective.
Thanks for adding perspective - that doesn’t seem like such a ‘small’ spill anymore...”””

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A gasoline trailer holds about 8,000 gallons. So a 400,000 gallon spill is about 50 gasoline trucks.

[WellyP]

Since then, it has been pumping groundwater, storing and processing the contaminated water, which contains tritium levels below federal thresholds. With the new GEN IV MSR/IMSR (reactors) that risk is iliminated. www.terrestrialenergy.com

[texas booster]

The half-life of tritium is 12 years, so its not very “radioactive” as those things go.

And how dilute is the tritium in that 400,000 gallons? One gallon in the whole mess? Two gallons?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Curious how these environmental accidents seem to be happening all of a sudden, train crashes and now nuclear leaks.”””

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It could be coincidental, but many experienced workers decided to retire rather than be forced to take a covid vaxx jab.

[Robert A Cook PE]

That's about six or seven gasoline tank trucks worth, to put it in perspective.
Thanks for adding perspective - that doesn't seem like such a ‘small’ spill anymore...

NOTE! The writers NEVER identified the contamination levels (concentration of the tritium NOR total amount of millicuries NOR any other units) - “contaminated radioactive water” also occurs when banana pulp solutions - radioactive with K40 are released into the commercial sewage centers.

Yes - that is an extreme example. But a real one. This water may be meaningless - we can't tell without the numbers, not the flow rate (seepage rate through the rock) until it gets diluted by the spring Mississippi flood runoffs.)

Then New Orleans racists will complain and sue about minority neighborhoods getting radiated from colonialist whites waste disposal!

[Cowman]

In an unrelated story a number of hold ups at area pizza shops appear to have been perpetrated by amphibians using martial arts.

[Tell It Right]

funny how this week in the news they were discussing the clean abundant energy we get from nuclear as opposed to the green crap they are handing us, Some one was instructed to open the valve and cause an environmental crisis

This is my #1 argument against nuclear power. I like nuclear power from a physical science standpoint. But I hate it from political science standpoint. In other words, if we try to placate the Dims and say, "fine. We'll shut down coal plants and natural gas because nuclear power is clean power we can both agree to use", all we're doing is setting us up so that the Dims can regulate it away later saying "nuclear is dangerous, dontcha know".

So yes, build nuclear power plants because we need more stability in the power grid as our population keeps growing. But the whole time our #1 battle to win regarding energy is to keep the Dims from always shutting down what works in the name of "global < insert the catchword of the day here > ".

[ConservativeInPA]

Leftist regulators are very punctual.

[momincombatboots]

Created crisis. Why can’t we have as many nuclear plants as France? The media and administration say no.. #LetThemEatCakemix. Because we let them get away the “Fossil Fuels” myth from the 1800s.

[Carl Vehse]

CBS News: "While Xcel reported the leak of water containing tritium to state and federal authorities in late November, the spill had not been made public before Thursday."

Chris Clark, president of Xcel Energy: "If at any point there had been concern for the public safety, we would of course, immediately have provided more information."

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesman Michael Rafferty: "We knew there was a presence of tritium in one monitoring well, however Xcel had not yet identified the source of the leak and its location."

Minnesota Department of Health website: "The EPA safe drinking water concentration for tritium is 20,000 picocuries/liter. It is not expected or likely that this concentration would be exceeded as a result of this event."

None of these organizations or their mouthpieces reported the actual tritium concentration in the leaked water or in the monitoring well sample.

The attitude of these organizations seems to be that they only provide information to the public just before the public needs the information for their own safey, or just the minimal amount of information when they legally have to.

This kind of attitude does not help the credibility and trustworthiness of the officials of Xcel Energy and the State of Minnesota.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Amphibians?

[euram]

But, MN is now a sanctuary state for child sexual mutilation, and radioactive water is OK.

[aumrl]

‘tritium’
anyone have a watch face that glows in the dark?

[DannyTN]

This thread is useless without concentration amounts or pictures of radioactive women.

Fortunately I found this...

"We have no evidence at this time that there are impacts to public drinking water in the vicinity of the plant. We will continue to monitor and assess the situation. The EPA safe drinking water concentration for tritium is 20,000 picocuries/liter. It is not expected or likely that this concentration would be exceeded as a result of this event. "Private well testing in the vicinity of the plant for tritium is not necessary at this time. We will continue to assess the situation to determine the need as we monitor the situation.

MN State Health: Xcel Energy Monticello Power Plant Tritium Leak

And this...

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[Delta 21]

If it poses no threat to the public why are they monitoring the cleanup of this innocuous alleged radioactive water?

Since November?

[stanne]

“It could be coincidental, but many experienced workers decided to retire rather than be forced to take a covid vaxx jab.”

Nuke power is good. Until something goes wrong. And something will always go wrong.

We’re trusting that the nuclear wast we’re giving all future generations will be managed by them.

[Delta 21]

Since November.

[Delta 21]

Since November.

[Salman]

More sabotage?

[AZJeep]

“Radioactive” is such a radioactive world.
Everybody is scared, but everything is radioactive in this world. Bananas are quite radioactive.