[ RadSafe ] Vermont Yankee leaking tritium - what me worry?

[William Lipton]

You may not "wring your hands," but all of the nuclear power plant operating
utilities are wringing theirs.  They have instituted major programs to
identify potential sources of leaks, remediate where appropriate, and
improve monitoring and reporting.

"Are the leaks dangerous?" is the wrong question.  Of course, they're not.

The real question is, "Should nuclear power plant operators take reasonable
measures to prevent leaks, improve monitoring so that leaks are detected
long before they reach groundwater, remediate any detected leaks, and keep
the public informed?"  Of course, they should.

Bill Lipton
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
doctorbill at post.harvard.edu


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> > Of course it's about dose, but that's not the point to some. If we wring
> our hands about this, we have to wring our hands about the local major
> industry and its incessant 'leaking of radiation' - a nuclide with a 1.3
> BILLION year half-life, with 1,460,000 eV photons ripping through the flesh
> of our children and pregnant women daily. Yes, I'm of course
> discussing....bananas... My gosh there are radioactive smoke detectors in
> many of our homes, a nuclide with a 430 year half-life, DEADLY alpha
> particles...same old, same old.
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> Sounds like reading Bertell "information".
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> My personal idea,
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> Bjorn Cedervall     bcradsafers at hotmail.com
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