Vt. has a nuke plant event (re: 'problem' many nuke plants have)

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


A problem cropping up at nuclear plants around the country has occurred at Vermont Yankee, with the discovery of a radioactive isotope called tritium in a monitoring well on the Vernon reactor site. Plant spokesman Robert Williams said the monitoring that found tritium in the well is part of an industrywide program to check for the isotope of hydrogen. He said the level is about half the amount that would be required to be reported to federal authorities and poses no threat to public health or safety. Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry engineer who has consulted with the Legislature on issues related to Vermont Yankee, on Thursday said, "It's a sign that there's a pipe or a tank leaking somewhere" at the plant. "It's highly unlikely that the highest concentration in the ground would happen to be at the monitoring well."
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just so you know

[RollWithIt]

1. Lets burn more coal....

I guess?

[ikri]

2. Tritium

Is used to make watch faces readable in the dark. If you took a watch apart and threw it in a swimming pool it would probably measure at a level high enough (the trigger level is very low) to warrant investigation.

And yet again, the fact that the tritium was found at a monitoring well on the plant site shows that safety programs are working as intended.

[whistler162]

3. Here is a link to a non-hack website with the story

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/08/sign_of_leak_detected_at_nuclear_plant_in_vt/

unrec because of the website used.

[ensho]

5. why would you call RSOE a hack site?

the RSOE description didn't differ from the article you linked to. what's your beef?

[whistler162]

4. Here is a link to a non-hack website with the story

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/08/sign_of_leak_detected_at_nuclear_plant_in_vt/