Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites

[Pharaoh]

Source: MSNBC

'You got pipes that have been buried underground for 30 or 40 years, and they've never been inspected,' whistleblower says


updated 6/21/2011 5:48:09 AM ET



BRACEVILLE, Ill. — Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.

Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants.

Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard — sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43475479/ns/us...

[Better Believe It]

1. K & R

[ensho]

2. kick

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[ProfessorGAC]

3. The Braidwood Plant?

This isn't news. We've known about this for years around here. The company that runs the plant admitted it.

It's hard to believe that at least some of the other 47 weren't the same.
GAC

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Cancer is not any fun.

[iemitsu]

5. the truth leaks out more slowly than

tritium form a nuclear reactor.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. Yes but it is clean tritium

You know, it's colorless, odorless, and won't stain your clothes. And it's not oily like other forms of energy. It's Clean!

[iemitsu]

7. yes, and ought to be added to our laundry detergent.

it would make those whites positively glow.