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Re: News report of coolant leak at Indian Point
Probably like the slow leak they had in 1980 when they vented a steam
generator with a tube leak to atmosphere.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>
To: "radsafe" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: News report of coolant leak at Indian Point
> Excerpted from the Washington Post web site
> ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9640-2002Feb14.html)
>
> Nuclear Power Plant Leaking Coolant
> The Associated Press
> Thursday, February 14, 2002; 12:23 PM
>
> BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- Radioactive coolant is leaking from a steam
> generator of
> the Indian Point nuclear plants, but not enough to endanger
> anyone or slow
> down the plant, officials said.
>
> Plant owner Entergy Corp. reported that sensors detected
> radioactivity - about
> a tenth of an ounce a day - in what is supposed to be the clean
> water that is
> converted to steam.
>
> "It's very small. It's being monitored. There's no danger,"
> Entergy spokesman
> Larry Gottlieb said Thursday.
>
> Company vice president Fred Dacino noted the allowable limit of
> radioactivity
> is 1,000 times as much.
> ------
>
> That "tenth of an ounce a day" must be some new SI unit of
> radioactivity. ;-)
>
> Rick
>
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