Vermont Public Radio: tritium
These were some of the voices in the news this week.
The Vermont Yankee plant disclosed today that another well is contaminated. And Yankee also confirmed that it couldn't test for tritium for a two week period earlier this month.
Another groundwater monitoring well at the Vermont Yankee plant is contaminated with radioactive tritium. State and federal officials say the discovery may mean there's a new underground leak of radioactive materials.
Entergy Vermont Yankee says a radioactive tritium leak that was discovered in January has been stopped, and it's begun cleaning up the contamination.
Reporter John Dillon talks with VPR's Bob Kinzel about the politics and community concerns of the radioactive tritium discovered underground at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.
VPR's Bob Kinzel talks with two lawmakers from the southeastern corner of Vermont about how the Legislature should proceed on questions around the Vermont Yankee.
State officials say more radioactive tritium has been found at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant _ at much higher levels than were found in a test well nearly two weeks ago.
Entergy Vermont Yankee has discovered radioactive tritium in a second monitoring well near the Vernon reactor. Yankee says the finding will help engineers pinpoint the source of the contaminated water that appears to be moving toward the Connecticut River.




