Danger of tritium exposure underrated, report says

[kristopher]

Danger of tritium exposure underrated, report says
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT, Globe and Mail - Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Releases of radioactive tritium from Canadian nuclear power plants are so elevated that children under 4 and pregnant women shouldn’t live within 10 kilometres of an atomic generating station, and those living within five kilometres shouldn’t eat food grown in their gardens, Greenpeace says in a controversial study being released Tuesday.

Canadian-style Candu reactors are among the world’s largest sources of tritium, producing up to hundreds of times more of the radioactive substance than other reactor designs. The report says high amounts of tritium in the Great Lakes and around the stations indicate nuclear plants routinely emit it into the environment.

The Greenpeace report calls Health Canada’s standard for the level of tritium in drinking water “very lax” because it is about 10 times higher than that of the United States and 100 times higher than the level allowed in Europe.

“Scientific concerns about tritium’s hazards are inadequately recognized by Canada’s nuclear regulators,” the study contends.

But federal regulators ...

http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/news/danger_of_tritium_exposure_underrated_report_says/

[madokie]

1. K&R

[provis99]

2. and this is the world's safest nuclear reactor.

all others are worse...

[FBaggins]

3. Not in terms of tritium release.

By that standard it's probably the worst.

[FBaggins]

4. More than four years old.

Of course the "report" was easily debunked.

http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/ReviewofGreenpeacereport_Final.pdf