According to an Atlanta Journal Constitution article by Dave Gram,
Vermont utility regulators will consider revoking the operating license of the state's lone nuclear plant, as well as the less drastic step of a temporary shutdown while a leak of radioactive material at the plant is found and stopped.
In other news the source of the leak may have been found according to the Rutland Herald.
By the way, this is the system Arnie wrote to DPS and Entergy about on Aug 13, and what now fired Entergy employee and legislative liaison Dave McElwee said did not exist. The same Dave McElwee seen on the iamvy promotional website now removed.
See A Chronicle of Issues Regarding Buried Tanks and Underground Piping at VT Yankee on the JFO website: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/JFO...
The Department of Health announced this morning that a "substantial crack" had been uncovered in underground pipes during excavations this morning at the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor that might to be a source of the tritium leak at the plant.
According to a brief posting on the Rutland Herald.
"This finding is good visual evidence of a possible pathway from the AOG (advanced off-gas) pipe tunnel into the earth and groundwater," the Department of Health morning update stated.
Finally, both the Rutland Herald and VT Digger are reporting the presence of Cesium 137, Maganese and Zinc according to the Department of Health, although there is no update of this fact on their website. On January 21, 2010, Arnie notified DPS to expect other isotopes other than tritium. He has also requested that they search for Strontium 90.
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