Let’s just say, I’m not surprised

Per Bob Audette / Brattleboro Reformer:

On Friday, the Vermont Department of Health received laboratory data from Yankee that indicated samples collected last week from groundwater monitoring well GZ-23S are contaminated with low levels of tritium.

This, of course, is becoming a familiar refrain.  In case you don’t have your well monitoring score card handy, it should be noted that this is a new detection of tritium in a well that had not been detected before.

So that’s… comforting?

5 thoughts on “Let’s just say, I’m not surprised

  1. where have we seen this before?

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    At least this is more good news from VY, at least to their way of thinking anyway (i.e., nothing different than what they expected), right?

    It is certainly a good thing VY is “safe and reliable”, as I would hate to see what would be the case if they were not.

  2. this Friday thing is pretty darn reliable. It is safe to assume that every Friday we will have more information about something that is not an immediate threat to public health.  Not immediate, just a slowly teaching, crumbling, obfuscating sort of threat.

    These are not the pipes you are looking for.

    I read about a snow removal company dumping truck loads on snow into the Merrimack river over in NH. The firm has been found out and was in violation of federal clean water legislation, as well as state and local laws. Yet VY can continue to operate while leaking tritium and who knows what else into the ground and the CT River.  

  3. to DOH, more than likely so they cannot continue their charade as well as Irwin’s antics. The DOH website has not been updated since the 21st.

    1. “The state will expect daily updates on tritium levels in monitoring wells from Entergy to the Department of Public Service and the Department of Health, Shumlin said. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has called for a similar testing regimen.”

    2. “Shumlin has demanded that Entergy give the Department an emergency plan within 24 hours that explains how “they’re going to get to the bottom of this will be formulating a plan to get to the bottom of this latest leak.”

    http://vtdigger.org/2011/02/02

    Herald claimed in their Wednesday story #2 has not been met. Though Entergy has made some gestures it is unclear whether these meet the criteria of Shumlin & others involved w/these directives.    

  4. point it seems someone wrote a virus back in the 70s and planted it in ground to grow pipes that weren’t originally in the design. The virus is written for them to magically connect up to key systems, after which they begin to degrade and leak.

    Wonder if we could get the testing equipment to automatically upload the results to Twitter. Oh, we would need operational equipment. Doh.

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