The tritium plume emanating from the allegedly nonexistent underground leaking pipes has now reached the Connecticut River according to the State of Vermont Department of Health (DOH) website. DOH http://healthvermont.gov/envir…
Lawrence Auclair, webmaster of evacuationplans.org has a number of links on his website to all the recent news regarding Vermont Yankee’s aging managment issues: http://www.evacuationplans.org/
On Feb. 4, 2010, well number GZ-14, which is only 30 feet from the Connecticut River, was measured at 70,000 pCi/L of tritium. Yesterday that well registered 119,000 pCi/L tritium, which is six times the maximum level the EPA regulations allow for drinking water. Other states like California and Colorado limit the levels they allow to 400 pCi/L in California and 500 pCi/L in Colorado.
Dr. Arjun Makajani, a physicist with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (ieer.org) discusses tritium, Nuclear Information Resource Services (NIRS) has a Tritium: Health Consequences fact sheet from July 2006 that may be found here: http://www.nirs.org/factsheets… and Dr. Rosalie Bertell’s scientific analysis may be found at here at Beyond Nuclear: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/d…
Finally, every media outlet in the state has been covering this issue. The pro-nuke websites were first claiming that there was no tritium, then that it does not matter, and stating that it had not reached the river. The DOH website and pictures contradict all that information.
water and tritium do indeed run downhill.
Is that even if it’s in the river, it’s too dilute to make a difference to anyone.
Given that the Legislature can’t deny relicensing based on safety concerns, can’t we just say that we don’t want to have a plant in operation run by people who lie to us and can’t keep track of what might be flowing out of the plant and polluting our land and water?
Safety and reliability are inextricably linked.
The clear unreliability of VY is why it’s continuing to pour tritiated water into the CT river, which is unsafe.
Thank you again and again for your work.