Nuclear Reactors Found to Be Leaking Radioactive Water

[donsu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/national/17nuke.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1142618762-f/mepP9p+B/cyfvGqTZ4Kw


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But there is a catch. The public's acceptance of new reactors depends in part on the performance of the old ones, and lately several of those have been discovered to be leaking radioactive water into the ground.

Near Braceville, Ill., the Braidwood Generating Station, owned by the Exelon Corporation, has leaked tritium into underground water that has shown up in the well of a family nearby. The company, which has bought out one property owner and is negotiating with others, has offered to help pay for a municipal water system for houses near the plant that have private wells.

In a survey of all 10 of its nuclear plants, Exelon found tritium in the ground at two others. On Tuesday, it said it had had another spill at Braidwood, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago, and on Thursday, the attorney general of Illinois announced she was filing a lawsuit against the company over that leak and five earlier ones, dating to 1996. The suit demands among other things that the utility provide substitute water supplies to residents.

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In New York, at the Indian Point 2 reactor in Buchanan, workers digging a foundation adjacent to the plant's spent fuel pool found wet dirt, an indication that the pool was leaking. New monitoring wells are tracing the tritium's progress toward the Hudson River.
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nuclear poisoning

they want to build a new round of nuke power plants

we are totally insane as a people if we let them.

they don't even know how to clean up and dispose of properly the poison already spread around

they don't know how to medically treat those poisoned in an up to date medical way (as do some other countries)

and the weather will continue to get worse.

people need to go solar to protect themselves. everything from solar flashlights to solar on the roof or out a window, etc.

mercury tuna under the bed won't do

[Tikki]

1. The poisons created by the....

nuclear industry are insidious little killers. But kill...they do.






Tikki

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Here...read my PERSONAL account of this. It's HORRIFYING!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x662743

[MADem]

4. Jesus Christ on a bicycle, that is indeed horrifying n/t

[sui generis]

3. WAIT WAIT

so rather than pay to keep the water from leaking they'll just pay to have city water piped in to those families.

wait wait don't tell me, it's too expensive to fix the leaks.

[acmejack]

5. People are inexpensive.

Get a grip on your economics here. Or not, that's what MBAs are for.