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Let's take a moment to parse this one out

by: JulieWaters

Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 04:43:03 AM EST


Per today's Rutland Herald:

Larry Smith, spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, said Monday that the hole was located in an elbow in a 1-1/2-inch pipe, and he said the company was investigating what caused the hole and whether to replace the elbow or patch it.
[...]
The water coming from the hole is not reaching the environment, since it is in an underground pipe tunnel and the water goes into a drain, where it is eventually treated, Smith said.

So just to make this clear: there is a hole in this pipe, but there is no danger to "the environment" because the liquid goes through other underground pipes before being released into "the environment."

Anyone else see the... hole... in this suggestion?

JulieWaters :: Let's take a moment to parse this one out
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Aside from the "Front Fell Off" (Search on Youtube for Clarke and Dawe and that phrase) problem, what constitutes "treatment"?

We are talking about tritium, which is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It can't be filtered out of tritiated water because it is part of tritiated water. The only things you can do with tritiated water are 1) contain it for a couple of centuries, or 2) dilute it in, let's say, a large river, and hope that the no one person gets a big enough dose to do irreparable chromosomal damage.

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