Another Friday, another revelation of leaking tritium from Vermont Yankee. This time it's deeper than the previously known leaks, indicating that the tritium may be moving toward the Connecticut River.
Here are the interesting facts to me.
Date of disclosure of this new leak: Friday, December 3.
Date of testing: Monday, November 29.
So here's my question: How long does it take to find tritium once you have the samples? Does it really take almost a week?
Or to put it another way, how long was Douglas's health department sitting on this information in order to release the information into the Friday afternoon dead zone?
lab work isn’t just a matter of putting the sample in a machine and reading the numbers. I’m not sure about tritium, but many other compounds, organic and inorganic, can take up to two weeks to get a result.
of the “Friday night surprise.” I hope Douglas’ two stooges on the Texas Commission are paying attention. No matter what the NRC functionaries may say, VY is on its way out and we’re gonna need a whole lot of Texas topsoil to bury her “assets” deep and long!
are busy applying at WalMart for those lucrative greeter positions somtimes things just need to wait until Friday.
I noted the line that Arnie Gundersen was listed as a ‘critic’ instead of an expert (and a damned near clairvoyant one at that).
The thing that is reliable about VY is the Friday ‘TritiLeaks’.
I hope our Governor elect has something to say about this. Anyone have a parade float handy? Can we get on with shutting this down and transitioning to something else now?
My understanding is that Vermont Yankee bought a special analyzer to test for tritium in the water. This new machine returns results in less than 24 hours.
In my humble opinion, tritium found in the water should have been publicly reported on Tuesday, of course that would have been early in the news cycle and during the same time everyone was asking about the DPS employee votes in favor of expanding the Texas Compact so that Entergy is able to dispose of more of the waste from its other nukes.
And lest we forget, the Tuesday night prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, Entergy announced that it had turned off the extraction wells because the wells had done their work.
Finally, why haven’t there been any more tests for strontium in fish??? And, why have there been so few tests? Why is the river water temperature monitored more than 1 mile downstream?
Vermont’s new sport fishing program will have to alert Connecticut River fishermen and women that they should not eat the fish as radioactive isotopes are concentrated in food sources. This should do wonders for Vermont’s pristine Chamber of Commerce image and the tourism industry. Glow in the dark fish, the natural catch.