A Connecticut River fish caught four miles upstream from the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor this winter tested positive for low levels of strontium-90, a highly dangerous radioactive isotope recently confirmed in soil outside the plant.

(Fish in Connecticut test positive for isotope, Barre/Montpelier Times Argus, 05/25/10)

But not to worry because according to William Irwin (described as radiological health chief for the Vermont Health Department) the strontium contamination is not related to Louisiana Entergy Yankee – the toxic material is from 1960s era nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl explosion/meltdown of the 1986.

We’ve been down this road before. Louisiana Entergy Yankee is right now cleaning up strontium from depths in the ground unreachable by airborne contamination that Louisiana Entergy Yankee and the Douglas administration were happy to blame on the same long ago happenings!