In February, the Gordian Knot News published a piece on tritium, the most innocuous radioactive isotope known to man. Tritium had made the news because the Japanese had collected so much slightly tritated water at Fukushima that they had filled up every corner of the massive Fukushima Daichi site with tritated water tanks. With nowhere else to go, they had finally decide to start releasing the six grams of tritium into the Pacific.
Thank you Jack for finding the facts on this release, facts which I didn't have when I wrote a rebuttal to an article from CBS, copied to the FaceBook forum Renewables vs Nuclear Debate.
I have linked to your article above in a second comment on that same FaceBook post.
Someone please help me. I need to spend my limited time not as an advocate, but as an editor at Citizendium ensuring we have the best encyclopedia coverage of nuclear power, far better than Wikipedia.
The US nuclear industry keeps reinforcing public perception of radiation hazards.
Nothing screams "this stuff is dangerous" louder than shutting down a plant capable of making about half a million dollars per day worth of clean electricity in order to conduct an emergency repair of a pipe leaking tritiated water into the ground under the plant.
Based on closely following Vermont Yankee in its final days, I predict that activists will continually remind the public that Monticello is a leaky facility and that the plant owners covered up the leaks. These claims will happen despite the fact they reported the leak to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission within one day of discovery. The NRC promptly published the report on a publicly available daily digest of reported incidents. It won't matter when the plant owners took action to repair the leak.
Thank you Jack for finding the facts on this release, facts which I didn't have when I wrote a rebuttal to an article from CBS, copied to the FaceBook forum Renewables vs Nuclear Debate.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2081763568746983/posts/3439635739626419?comment_id=3440321002891226
I have linked to your article above in a second comment on that same FaceBook post.
Someone please help me. I need to spend my limited time not as an advocate, but as an editor at Citizendium ensuring we have the best encyclopedia coverage of nuclear power, far better than Wikipedia.
The US nuclear industry keeps reinforcing public perception of radiation hazards.
Nothing screams "this stuff is dangerous" louder than shutting down a plant capable of making about half a million dollars per day worth of clean electricity in order to conduct an emergency repair of a pipe leaking tritiated water into the ground under the plant.
Based on closely following Vermont Yankee in its final days, I predict that activists will continually remind the public that Monticello is a leaky facility and that the plant owners covered up the leaks. These claims will happen despite the fact they reported the leak to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission within one day of discovery. The NRC promptly published the report on a publicly available daily digest of reported incidents. It won't matter when the plant owners took action to repair the leak.