Vermont's Underground Radioactive Lake

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The Associated Press recently reported that at least 27 of 104 nuclear reactors across the United States are leaking potentially dangerous levels of tritium into the groundwater around the plants ~ which includes Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant. This reactor is evidently pumping large amounts underground under the reactor in badly leaking disintegrating pipes.

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Here are the facts , folks.

" Since Entergy bought Yankee in 2002, the aging plant, located in Vernon, Vermont, has suffered a series of mishaps, including a fire, the collapse of a cooling tower, and most recently a tritium leak that has created an underground pool of radioactive water the size of a football field, and at least 30 feet deep. Some of that tritium, which is carcinogenic, has reached the nearby Connecticut River. "
“We’ve seen fires, radiation leaks, and collapsing cooling towers, and now we know Entergy boosted its bottom line by skimping on maintenance at Yankee,” Burns said. “We’re the ones wondering when the tritium is going to reach our drinking water. We’re the ones being handed a long-term deal for less power at higher costs. We’re the ones who may be on the hook for a large chunk of a billion-dollar cleanup.” Burns noted that Entergy’s “working capital requirements” also do not, apparently, include the decommissioning fund that is supposed to pay for cleaning up the plant. That fund is currently under $500 million, and the estimated cleanup costs are $1 billion. ."

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Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a longtime critic of the nuclear power industry, told Amy Goodman ( Truthdig, Feb 8, 2010 ) “If you buy more nuclear plants, you’re going to get about two to 10 times less climate solution per dollar, and you’ll get it about 20 to 40 times slower, than if you buy instead the cheaper, faster stuff that is walloping nuclear and coal and gas.”
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whatever are they going to do about that toxic lake! that is seeping into the river!

[hobbit709]

1. Dilute the tritium down.

both Deuterium and Tritium occur naturally though at very low percentages of water. Half-life of Tritium is about 12 1/3 years. I'd be more worried about the fact that the pipes are leaking period than I am about the Tritium.

[ThomWV]

4. But then all the fish in the ocean will grow 6 eyes and the mountains will melt and the sky will fal

and every other imaginable horror will come to pass. My god, grab the women and children and burry their heads - its too horrible to contemplate.

[lonestarnot]

2. Is there anything they don't skim the cream from the top?

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3. be assured all cream is skimmed

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