VY tritium found in the Connecticut River

After careful (4.00 / 2)

study,monitoring and measuring it was determined that water does indeed flow downhill.
Hope they keep up the aggressive sampling to document the contamination levels.

The Health Department will continue to test more fish and water samples as part of its comprehensive surveillance and reporting on Vermont Yankee.

Read more: http://www.wptz.com/news/28896...

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by: BP @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 02:23:00 AM UTC

Heh (0.00 / 0)

Where is Captain Obvious when you need him?

Next, they'll confirm that the earth revolves around the sun.  

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by: simplify @ Fri Aug 19, 2011 at 03:34:55 AM UTC

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Don't think of it as "contaminated." (4.00 / 4)

Think of it as "enhanced."

It's water plus!  

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by: JulieWaters @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 09:08:06 AM UTC

Bring on the bottlers! (0.00 / 0)

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by: Sue Prent @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 12:55:30 PM UTC

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I'm surprised (0.00 / 0)

no one has done this yet. I was thinking this morning that someone should sell little vials of soil from the riverbed with some sort of gimmicky label. "Buy a little bit of Vernon soil before it's too hot to hold!" or "Patent Pending VT Glow in the Dark Soil" or something much more clever.

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by: niiru @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 21:30:24 PM UTC

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And here's the pitch... (4.00 / 3)

Ever have trouble finding your bottled water in the dark? Can't tell which bottle is yours in the breakroom fridge?

Well, here's the answer: Glow H20, bottled at the source in lovely southeastern Vermont! Yes, Glow H20, the water that literally glows with vitality! Glow H20, distributed by EnterBev, and available at fine retailers everywhere.

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."  --Frank Zappa

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by: jvwalt @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 13:41:23 PM UTC

H2Glow! nt (4.00 / 2)

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by: Jack McCullough @ Fri Aug 19, 2011 at 03:16:20 AM UTC

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Or Glow2-O! (0.00 / 0)

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by: simplify @ Fri Aug 19, 2011 at 03:35:46 AM UTC

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Now, now (4.00 / 2)

Let's not jump to any hasty conclusions here.

Just because VY poured tritium into the ground water doesn't mean that the tritium on the river bank came from there. It is far more likely that it came from Fukishima, because Entergy says so and they've never lied to us before (just ask AG Sorrell).

It's not like the tritium molecules say 'Property of Vermont Yankee' on them.

Just like there's no proof tobacco smoke causes cancer and there's no proof that global warming exists.

When the Fed can prove that they didn't fake the moon landings, then Entergy will be happy to disclose the true source of the tritium on the shores of the CT River.

And don't get them started on the Strontium-90, which was obviously left-over radiation from the Big Bang and can't possibly ever have come from a nuclear power plant 9 miles away!

Who are you going to believe, a bunch of anti-nuclear whackos or Entergy?

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by: Comrade Rutherford @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 20:40:24 PM UTC

I am willing to bet there are ways to identify where the specific isotopes came from (0.00 / 0)

Perhaps gamma spectrometry and optical spectroscopy tools would provide sufficient signature information from the tritium to identify exactly where it originated.

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by: simplify @ Fri Aug 19, 2011 at 03:45:42 AM UTC

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I blame gravity (4.00 / 2)

Although, to be fair, it's just a theory...

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by: ntoddpax2 @ Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 20:41:57 PM UTC

It would be nice if the anti-science folks would stop (4.00 / 2)

... confusing theories with hypotheses.

They call their own nutty hypotheses theories, but treat well-established theories as hypotheses. "Bad anti-science people! No doughnut!"

I haz an annoyed.

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by: simplify @ Fri Aug 19, 2011 at 03:52:47 AM UTC

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