Indian Point Deteriorates – tritium, radioactive hydrogen, at 8 million picoCuries per liter!

Beyond Nuclear – Mum’s the word as radioactive leak at Indian Point gets worse

“Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear power plant at Buchanan, NY is leaking more radioactive tritium at higher concentrations into groundwater draining into the Hudson River. Failure of a sump pump needed for filtering radioactivity in contaminated water accumulated from a refueling outage is believed to be the cause of this latest spill picked up in three onsite monitoring wells next to Unit 2.

The depth, breadth and flow rate of the underground contaminated plume remains unknown. One monitoring well (MW-32), which is 57 feet deep, first tested positive for high levels of tritium, radioactive hydrogen, at 8 million picoCuries per liter (pCi/L). In a press release, Entergy “voluntarily” admitted that a more recent follow-up test for tritium has now increased by 80%(!!!). Beyond Nuclear badgered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for more transparency to find that tritium levels in three monitoring wells have soared.  Tritium concentrations  have risen in MW-30 from 1.5 million pCi/L to 2.7 million pCi/L, MW-31 from 38,100 pCi/L to 9.5 million pCi/L and MW-32 is now 14.8 million pCi/L. (!!!)

But “voluntary” compliance automatically ducks reliable reporting, federal regulations and enforcement action. . . . “  (more)

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2016/2/10/mums-the-word-as-radioactive-leak-at-indian-point-gets-worse.html

[emphasis added – FC]

• On the NRC’s Deceptive Event Reporting
• Big Fault Line & Big Gas Pipeline & Indian Point Nuke Plant
• Highly Contaminated Water Leaking at Indian Point

Document on tritium and health (from the Beyond Nuclear article)

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Feb. 12 –

A Green Road Blog – Aging Nuclear Reactors, Safety Lies, Deceptions, Embrittlement, Earthquakes Plus Profits At Any Cost, Until Complete Catastrophic Failure, Radiation Leak Getting Worse At Nuclear Plant Near NYC

ENE-News – CBS: Radiation leak “getting worse” at nuclear plant near NYC — Levels increase over 120,000%, almost 15 million pCi/L — Governor: “Extremely disconcerting” — Expert: I don’t think they know where it’s coming from — Radioactive Antimony now being detected (VIDEO)

#IndianPointleak
#tritiumIndianPoint

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