My, my. Another weekend announcement from Vermont Yankee

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More trouble at the plant. This time, it’s another ‘leak’. Surprise! Details seem a little unclear.

Press release is from The Burlington Free Press, this afternoon, posted in the Vermont section. I did not notice it myself, who would. Information was recieved from Vermont Yankees’ Larry Smith.

From the Free Press staff report:

“Vermont Yankee officials said Friday afternoon that the tritium that was discovered leaking from the plant a year ago has shown up in a monitoring where it had not previously been detected.”

http://www.burlingtonfreepress…

Someone on the Topix forum posted this.

Here we go again.

20 thoughts on “My, my. Another weekend announcement from Vermont Yankee”

  1. Another late Friday release.

    Here’s a little more that leaked out.

    Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan says the well is about 125 feet from a plume of tritium found last year to have leaked from one part of the plant.

    He says six other test wells between the plume and the newly positive well have turned up negative for tritium, indicating it hasn’t traveled from the plume.

    http://www.wggb.com/Global/sto…

  2. VERNON – Both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Vermont Department of Health have indicated a new leak of tritiated water may have been found at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.

    http://www.reformer.com/latest…

    “A new leak of tritiated water may have been found.” Emphasis mine. I like that. A cautious approach. And, this one is from the VDH, as well as NRC.

    We know have three sources. It was Smith who said definitavely that it is in fact a leak of tritium.

    From VDH website:

    Investigation Update

    January 21, 2011

    “The Department of Health was notified this morning by Entergy Vermont Yankee officials that a sample taken from groundwater monitoring well GZ-24S has been confirmed as being contaminated with tritium.”

    more:

    http://healthvermont.gov/envir…

  4. Chapman: Trouble at plant.

    Cleveland: Oh no – what kind of trouble?

    Chapman: One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.

    Cleveland: Pardon?

    Chapman: One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.

    Cleveland: I don’t understand what you’re saying.

    Chapman: [slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent] One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treadle.

    Cleveland: Well what on earth does that mean?

    Chapman: I don’t know – Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the plant, that’s all – I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

  8. Almost a year ago this week to great fanfare Entergy’s vice president Curt Hebert said about his task at VY“Our job is to change the perception,”  

    He was sent to Vermont with great fanfare and charged with rebuilding after

    “serious loss of trust” stemming from the ongoing leak, and from his predecessors’ sworn statements denying the existence of underground piping systems now suspected of being the source of the radioactive leak.

    Wonder where has he wondered off to?

    http://www.wptz.com/news/22527…

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