Indian Point Nuclear contamination (NY Westchester County) (1 Viewer)

[Rohn Jambo]

NY Governor's memo on ground water contamination at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-regarding-indian-point-nuclear-facility

"I am deeply concerned to have learned that radioactive tritium-contaminated water has recently leaked from operations at the Entergy Indian Point Energy Center (Indian Point) into groundwater at the site. This is not the first such release of radioactive water at Indian Point, nor is this the first time that Indian Point has experienced significant failure in its operation and maintenance. This failure continues to demonstrate that Indian Point cannot continue to operate in a manner that is protective of public health and the environment.

The levels of radioactivity reported this week are significantly higher than in past incidents. Three of forty monitoring wells registered alarming increases. In fact, one of the monitoring well increased nearly 65,000 percent from 12,300 picocuries per liter to over 8,000,000 picocuries per liter."

 

[AcerFC]

I wouldn't mind if they shut it down. If it blows, I probably wont be around to post much

 

[Smack Tripper]

Wow this is troubling since they buried it on a Saturday.

 

[spreagle]

This tritium in the groundwater thing happens from time to time, in fact it is inherent to the design of the plant and should be expected. I wouldn't be surprised if every nuclear plant has experienced this problem to some degree, because they knew there would be leaks now and then but they intentionally didn't design these plants to be leak free. Tritium is formed in the reactor water when water is bombarded with neutrons and is not an indication of uranium fuel damage. As far as I know, for pressurized water reactors they monitor and collect leaks where the leak could lead to a pipe rupture and an accident. The spent fuel pool is also a potential source of tritium in the water and is monitored for leaks from welds. The secondary side can get tritium in it from steam generator leakage. I suppose these leaks are fixed when they find them but sometimes a leak can be hidden and it takes time to find it. The leak probably came from the secondary side or maybe the pool.

 

[shadyridr]

Look at this ####### guy

 

[msommer]

This tritium in the groundwater thing happens from time to time, in fact it is inherent to the design of the plant and should be expected. I wouldn't be surprised if every nuclear plant has experienced this problem to some degree, because they knew there would be leaks now and then but they intentionally didn't design these plants to be leak free. Tritium is formed in the reactor water when water is bombarded with neutrons and is not an indication of uranium fuel damage. As far as I know, for pressurized water reactors they monitor and collect leaks where the leak could lead to a pipe rupture and an accident. The spent fuel pool is also a potential source of tritium in the water and is monitored for leaks from welds. The secondary side can get tritium in it from steam generator leakage. I suppose these leaks are fixed when they find them but sometimes a leak can be hidden and it takes time to find it. The leak probably came from the secondary side or maybe the pool.

So, would you drink that water?

 

[johnnycakes]

This tritium in the groundwater thing happens from time to time, in fact it is inherent to the design of the plant and should be expected. I wouldn't be surprised if every nuclear plant has experienced this problem to some degree, because they knew there would be leaks now and then but they intentionally didn't design these plants to be leak free. Tritium is formed in the reactor water when water is bombarded with neutrons and is not an indication of uranium fuel damage. As far as I know, for pressurized water reactors they monitor and collect leaks where the leak could lead to a pipe rupture and an accident. The spent fuel pool is also a potential source of tritium in the water and is monitored for leaks from welds. The secondary side can get tritium in it from steam generator leakage. I suppose these leaks are fixed when they find them but sometimes a leak can be hidden and it takes time to find it. The leak probably came from the secondary side or maybe the pool.

check out the brain on spreagle!

 

[Gawain]

IIRC half life conversions, should only take 115 years or so to get back to normal.

 

[spreagle]

This tritium in the groundwater thing happens from time to time, in fact it is inherent to the design of the plant and should be expected. I wouldn't be surprised if every nuclear plant has experienced this problem to some degree, because they knew there would be leaks now and then but they intentionally didn't design these plants to be leak free. Tritium is formed in the reactor water when water is bombarded with neutrons and is not an indication of uranium fuel damage. As far as I know, for pressurized water reactors they monitor and collect leaks where the leak could lead to a pipe rupture and an accident. The spent fuel pool is also a potential source of tritium in the water and is monitored for leaks from welds. The secondary side can get tritium in it from steam generator leakage. I suppose these leaks are fixed when they find them but sometimes a leak can be hidden and it takes time to find it. The leak probably came from the secondary side or maybe the pool.

So, would you drink that water?

The public only has to drink water from outside the site boundary, they don't have to drink water from underneath the plant.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

That is what

So, would you drink that water?

The public only has to drink water from outside the site boundary, they don't have to drink water from underneath the plant.

That is what Tokyo Electric tells people after Fukushima and they were wrong.

It is good that Cuomo made this news public, but then he lives in Westchester County himself.

 

[captain_amazing]

I wouldn't mind if they shut it down. If it blows, I probably wont be around to post much

I don't believe nuclear power plants can "blow" in the misconceived sense of some kind of explosion. I believe the worst that could happen is some kind of meltdown that would expose radioactive material in an uncontianed environment. But even if that happened due to internal failures, the material would fall into a trap that's built beneath the facility that's suppose to limit the radiation from such an event.I could be entirely wrong about all of this, though.

 

[spreagle]

I wouldn't mind if they shut it down. If it blows, I probably wont be around to post much

I don't believe nuclear power plants can "blow" in the misconceived sense of some kind of explosion. I believe the worst that could happen is some kind of meltdown that would expose radioactive material in an uncontianed environment. But even if that happened due to internal failures, the material would fall into a trap that's built beneath the facility that's suppose to limit the radiation from such an event.I could be entirely wrong about all of this, though.

There is no melting core catching trap. If there was, that would be an admission that the core could melt through the reactor vessel. That isn't supposed to happen for all the events the plant is licensed for. That's not to say some gigantic unforseen event might cause it to happen.