“Gift” is the German word for poison. That bit of trivia sprang to mind when I came across a piece in the, “oh by the way” section of today’s Free Press (corner pocket, 3c) informing us that, just in time for Christmas, “a small amount” of tritium has been found in the Connecticut river.
The nuclear plant says it learned Tuesday that a small amount of tritium was found in a sample taken near the plant on Nov. 3. The amount was significantly below the federal drinking water limit, and samples taken Nov. 7 and 10 showed no signs of tritium.
Absent from this statement is whether or not those benign samples taken November 7 and 10 were the only other samples taken since that date.
As the mandated closing approaches in March, there is a sense of desperation to VY’s PR efforts. Like an aging spinster she wraps her boney frame in economic illusion and insists you’ll miss her when she’s gone.
Don’t look now dear, but your slip is showing.
“samples taken Nov. 7 and 10 showed no signs of tritium, so it’s OK!”
the plant leaked and is perhaps still leaking.No “small’ thing at all.
I am so old I remember when it was a big deal if a nuclear power leaked radioactive material…even a small amount!
Raymond Shadis, New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
http://vtdigger.org/2011/12/22…
http://www.reformer.com/ci_195…
“Like an aging spinster she wraps her boney frame in economic illusion and insists you’ll miss her when she’s gone.”
I appreciate your points about Yankee but this is a really sexist, ageist, nasty analogy for a rather preternaturally male institution.
Now…Imagine if they were able to do with these ‘leaks’ what they have done with their ‘alleged’ break-in/arson story. Or maybe the SOBs will come up with a tale about how all this tritium in the river is being put there by anti-nuke terrorists.