8/18/2011 Vermont Yankee radioactive tritium found leaking in to Connecticut River
The Vermont health department says (Reuters published an article on 8/18/2011) they have been closely monitoring the radioactive tritium in groundwater originating from Vermont Yankee Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant as it has progressed in to the Connecticut River. Tritium levels tested by the state laboratory measured at 534 to 611 picocuries per liter. The EPA's maximum safe limit for drinking water is 20,000 picocuries per liter. Entergy stated that they found lower tritium levels from their own tests of river water, and that the levels registered below the official minimum detection limit. Entergy has also previously denied that strontium-90 found in a fish caught in the Connecticut river near Vermont Yankee originates from the nuclear power plant they run. [1]
The Vermont senate has voted to block the re-licensing of Vermont Yankee, whose current license to operate expires in March of 2012. The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has already granted a federal license for Entergy to continue operation of the nuclear power plant through March 21, 2032. Entergy has filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn the state's veto law. [2]
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