Friday, April 27, 2012

Run of the Mill Nuke Spill


Very good article

April 26, 2012: The Limerick Incident Wasn't an "EPPI": Relax, It’s Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill
by DAVE LINDORFF

[Excerpted] "A little over a month ago, back on March 19, at 3:00 in the morning, the Limerick Nuclear Power Station, which runs two aging GE nuclear reactors along the Schuylkill River west of Philadelphia, had an accident.  As much as 15,000 gallons of reactor water contaminated with five times the official safe limit of radioactive Tritium as well as an unknown amount of other dangerous isotopes from the reactor’s fission process blew off a manhole cover and ran out of a large pipe, flowing into a streambed and on into the river from which Philadelphia and a number of smaller towns draw their municipal water supplies.

No public announcement of this spill was made at the time, so the public in those communities had no idea that it had occurred, and water system operators had no opportunity to shut down their intakes from the river.  There was no report about the spill in Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers or on local news programs...."

Majia Here: Just wait until I tell you about tritium from nuke plants in swimming pools....

 

1 comment:

  1. A Limerick for Limerick

    People downstream of Limerick had no warning,
    of radioactive Tritium arriving one morning.
    The NRC said it is okay.
    To get radiated that way.
    Politician’s allow it to be ongoing.

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