Radioactive Water Dumped into Flooded Mississippi River

[kristopher]

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Investigates Radioactive Water Dump into Flooded Mississippi River

Saturday, May 7, 2011 - 02:45

PORT GIBSON, MS. (HNN) - Workers at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Plant in Mississippi accidentally released water from an abandoned unit into the river, but a sensor triggered altering them to the presence of Tritum, a cancer causing radionuclide.

...Lisa Uselding, public affairs officer with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV, told reporters, “although the concentration of tritium exceeded EPA drinking water limits, the release should not represent a hazard to public of its dilution in the river.”

According to an Emergency & Disaster Information website, Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigators have a preliminary determination that workers went to check for standing water following heavy rains. They found water at Unit Two which partially constructed and abandoned While pumping it out into the swollen river, they decided to test a sample. No data has been released on how much Tritum went into the river.

Although Tritum has been called one of the least dangerous radionuclides, the beta radioactive substance bombards cells and damages DNA when inhaled or swallowed, and can persist in the body for more than ten years upon exposure. Its perpetual effect on cells can lead to all sorts of serious diseases, including, but not limited to, gene mutations, birth defects, and cancer...

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/4117

Nothing to see, move along.

[AlabamaLibrul]

1. Why is this the new shit for everyone to do?

"It's over the limit, but don't freak out. We'll just raise the limit next week."

[AC_Mem]

2. Lovely

As I sit in Memphis and watch the Mississippi slowly creep closer and flood everything in site. Now this.

What next?

Annette

[WhiteTara]

3. Well, the Gulf had another nail slugged into

the coffin that was a breeding and fishing ground for many species.

[ddeclue]

4. FAIL...learn to spell TRITIUM to start with..secondly tritium isn't a threat.

Radiation from tritium won't even penetrate a piece of paper or your clothing.

Let's add to this that the tritium was highly diluted by being mixed into the MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

A little bit of heavy water was leaked into one of the world's largest rivers and all the anti-nuke types go nuts like it's Chernobyl or a nuclear blast.

:eyes:

[kristopher]

6. We'll fix you a big ol' glass of freshly discharged tritium waste and watch as you chug it down then

[Confusious]

5. Ahh nice, a cross link from natural news.

A web site that is run by libertarians.

Isn't it you who accused people of using info from right wing websites?

I guess it doesn't matter where the info comes from as long as you agree with them. hypocrite.