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Tritium Plume Reaches CT River According to Department of Health website

by: Maggie Gundersen

Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 18:25:35 PM EST

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The tritium plume emanating from the allegedly nonexistent underground leaking pipes has now reached the Connecticut River according to the State of Vermont Department of Health (DOH) website. DOH http://healthvermont.gov/envir...

Lawrence Auclair, webmaster of evacuationplans.org has a number of links on his website to all the recent news regarding Vermont Yankee's aging managment issues: http://www.evacuationplans.org/

On Feb. 4, 2010, well number GZ-14, which is only 30 feet from the Connecticut River, was measured at 70,000 pCi/L of tritium. Yesterday that well registered 119,000 pCi/L tritium, which is six times the maximum level the EPA regulations allow for drinking water. Other states like California and Colorado limit the levels they allow to 400 pCi/L in California and 500 pCi/L in Colorado.

Maggie Gundersen :: Tritium Plume Reaches CT River According to Department of Health website

Dr. Arjun Makajani, a physicist with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (ieer.org) discusses tritium, Nuclear Information Resource Services (NIRS) has a Tritium: Health Consequences fact sheet from July 2006 that may be found here: http://www.nirs.org/factsheets... and Dr. Rosalie Bertell's scientific analysis may be found at here at Beyond Nuclear: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/d...

Finally, every media outlet in the state has been covering this issue. The pro-nuke websites were first claiming that there was no tritium, then that it does not matter, and stating that it had not reached the river. The DOH website and pictures contradict all that information.

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Tritium Plume Reaches CT River According to Department of Health website | 5 comments

This much we know, (4.00 / 1)

water and tritium do indeed run downhill.

by: BP @ Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 00:53:43 AM UTC

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And now their line (4.00 / 1)

Is that even if it's in the river, it's too dilute to make a difference to anyone.

Given that the Legislature can't deny relicensing based on safety concerns, can't we just say that we don't want to have a plant in operation run by people who lie to us and can't keep track of what might be flowing out of the plant and polluting our land and water?

by: Jack McCullough @ Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 01:21:33 AM UTC

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The "safety" restriction is overstated. (4.00 / 1)

The legislature can act on environmental impact, public health... in other words, all the components of safety, so long as they don't approach it as safety.

Nullius perfectus est

by: odum @ Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 02:35:28 AM UTC

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