Trace leak at Wisconsin nuke plant "poses no threat".

[TheMightyFavog]

http://greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060826/GPG0101/608260412/1978

The plant announced last week it found an elevated level of radioactive particles called tritium in the ground near the building foundation. The radiation is higher than the level deemed OK for drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but plant employees and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission say it doesn't pose a risk to human health. There is no evidence the radiation has moved off the site.

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The radiation discovery is part of a national sweep of nuclear plants prompted by trouble at the Braidwood Nuclear Plant in Illinois. In that case, tritium contaminated groundwater and drinking water. In Kewaunee, however, no drinking water is believed to be involved.

[Eurobabe]

1. Except for everybody's thyroid glands

eom

[RevCheesehead]

2. Oh shit - I live about 15 miles from there.

I guess it's back to bottled water again.

And even if it poses no risk to human health, I still have three kitties to care for.

I need to check the local fish-wrap. I thought I saw a story about how people who live near the plant are being sent some kind of pill for radiation sickness.

I don't believe for a second that they'd do that "just to be cautious."

[RC]

3. OH NO! It's Chernobyl all over again!

Run for your lives. :sarcasm:

[NNadir]

4. Massive leak of mercury from Wisconsin coal fired plant gets ignored.

"Vast risks to human health swept under the run by general public."

Wouldn't that be a fun headline?

You'll never see it. New York's 5th avenue will be six feet under water and still people will be writing about tritium under a reactor in Wisconsin or Chicago or California.

Here I showed by appeal to data that the world wide concentration of Tritium in the environment has been falling since 1963, around the time nuclear power began to come into wide use.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2463434#2465393

Unhappily there has been a worldwide growth in ignorance since 1963 though. Everybody is paying a huge amount of attention to the safest and cleanest form of scalable continuous energy - nuclear energy. Nobody is paying attention to the real threat, fossil fuels.