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Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak
mdsolar writes "The decrepit nuclear reactor Vermont Yankee has sprung a radioactive leak similar to those at other poorly run reactors in Illinois (Braidwood, Byron and Dresden), Arizona (Palo Verde), and New York (Indian Point). Greenpeace noted 3 years ago that radioactive tritium leaks even threaten Champagne from France. Tritium and its decay product helium 3 are incredibly valuable and there is currently a shortage of helium 3. What, besides shutting down leaky old nuclear plants, could be done to better control release of tritium into the environment?"
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is my beer in danger? That's what I would like to know!
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I get that a lot.
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Well, it does make it sound like a "crumbling" old reactor is "springing" a terribly dangerous tritium "leak" when really it's hardly hazardous at all. I mean, just because everything you read about radiation has an extremely negative spin doesn't change the fact that it's all still spin.
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Wow, awesome deduction there, Sherlock.
Nothing. For the sake of the environment we should shut down these dirty, poluting nuclear power plants and replace them with clean eco-friendly coal burning plants at once.
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The words "crumbling," "decrepit" and "poorly run" are pretty loaded, especially referring to levels of tritium around half the limit found on site, and no detectable levels off site.
But in his defense, he did refer to Illinois, and those three words should be the state motto.
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