THIS NUKE FACILITY IS ONLY 25 MILES FROM NEW YORK CITY.
FROM CBS: Highly radioactive leak discovered at Indian Point nuclear
Officials at Indian Point in Buchanan reported on Friday that water contaminated BY TRITIUM leaked into the groundwater under the facility.
It was unclear how much water spilled, but samples showed the water had a radioactivity level of more than 8 million picocuries per liter, a 65,000 percent increase from the average at the plant, Cuomo said. The levels are the highest regulators have seen at Indian Point, and the normal number is about 12,300 picocuries per liter, Cuomo said.
Contaminated groundwater would likely slowly make its way to the Hudson River, Sheehan said.
There has been a history of groundwater contamination at Indian Point. A federal oversight agency issued a report after about 100,000 gallons of tritium-tainted water entered the groundwater supply in 2009, and elevated levels of tritium also were found in two monitoring wells at the plant in 2014. Officials said then the contamination likely stemmed from an earlier maintenance shutdown."
NY to probe 'radioactive' water leak at Indian Point
Radioactive water leaks into groundwater at Indian Point
I WILL NOW HUMBLY BOW TO THE EXPERT ON THIS, MICHAEL COLLINS...WHO WILL SHOW YOU THE CALMING STATEMENTS BY ENTERGY AND ANYONE ELSE IS SIMPLY BULLS**T.
TRITIUM IS 300% MORE DEADLY THAN CESIUM!
THIS IS A LINK TO CANADA'S WARNING FOR THEIR CITIZENS ABOUT TRITIUM.
PLEASE, PLEASE READ WHAT COLLINS HAS TO SAY!
[MOST OF THE EMPHASIS IS MINE.]
"NUCLEAR TERRORISM"
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/nuclear-terrorism-296000-radioactive-shots-per-second-bq-per-liter-of-water-34-oz-near-entergys-indian-pt-nuclear-power-station-compare-to-m134-gun-at-100-rounds-per-second/
"296,000 Radioactive Shots Per SECOND (Bequerels) per Liter of Water (34 oz) in groundwater test wells for Entergy’s Indian Pt. Nuclear Power Station. Compare to a M134 MiniGun at 100 Rounds Per Second.
The idea of a gunshot analogy is not our invention, but rather from Los Alamos Nuclear Lab, Number 23 1995, Los Alamos Science, where they compare radiation damage types to rifles, shotguns, etc.
How long would an individual get by with shooting a gun of any sort at people in public? And, yet the nuclear industry-utilities get by with it all of the time.
They are allowed by law to legally leak long-lived lethal radioactive materials into the environment on a routine basis throughout the entire nuclear fuel chain. Being a New Orleans based company, Entergy’s just apparently decided to add radioactive lagniappe (a little something extra).
Water (H2O) and Carbon are the foundations of life itself. Nuclear Power makes the very foundations of life radioactive (tritium, tritiated water, C-14).
Having to be fearful because the water one drinks and food one eats may be lethal to oneself or one’s loved ones is the worst terrorism of all. You can opt out of going to public events. You can’t opt out of eating and drinking.
“Typical cyclic rates of fire are 600–900 RPM for assault rifles, 1,000-1,100 RPM in some cases, 900-1,200 RPM for submachine guns and machine pistols, and 600-1,200 RPM for machine guns. M134 Miniguns mounted on attack helicopters and other combat vehicles can achieve rates of fire of over 100 rounds per second (6,000 RPM).“8,000,000 picocuries is 296,000 Becquerels (i.e Radioactive disintegrations (shots) per second). It’s impossible to even imagine this 296,000 radioactive shots to your cells per SECOND. Any improperly repaired damage may lead to cancer or inheritable damage. However, unlike with a gun, it may take decades or even generations for the damage to be known.
According to Los Alamos Nuclear Lab, severe genetic damage, more likely induced by ionizing radiation, may be especially hard to repair, and hence particularly dangerous: “Although single-strand breaks, abasic sites, and base alterations are induced by both ionizing radiation and normal metabolic processes, one particularly dangerous type of DNA lesion, the double-strand break, is induced preferentially by ionizing radiation“. (Number 23 1995 Los Alamos Science, p. 77)
A liter is around 2 average cola or water bottles, i.e. 33.8 US fluid ounces.
People are supposed to drink at least a liter and a half of water per day.
Tritium in the form of water stays in the body for around 160 days and if it is organically bound for around 2 years, continuing to damage the body.
It stays in the environment for almost 200 years where it cycles through living beings..
Half-life means half of the amount is left.
Then another half life is half of that so that it takes 14 to 16 half-lives to get close to none.
According to Lawrence Berkeley US National [Nuclear] Lab:
“When tritiated water enters the body it acts just like normal water, spreading throughout the body and delivering a uniform radiation dose to all soft tissues. Using the modeling techniques discussed in Chapter 4, we determined that it takes about 10 days for HALF the intake or uptake of tritiated water to be discharged out of the body.
This period is called the biological half life. For tritium that is ingested as OBT” [Organically Bound Tritium] “(e.g., from garden vegetables grown by residents of Zone 2), the biological HALF-LIFE is on the order of 48 days….
Tritium is found in the environment in three principal forms
molecular tritium (T2 or HT), tritiated water (HTO, as opposed to H2O), and organically bound tritium (OBT) in which it is chemically bonded to organic molecules. Tritiated water is the most abundant chemical form of tritium in the environment…
2.2.2 Health Effects of Tritium
“… These experiments show that exposure to tritiated water results in mutations and cell disruptions that can lead to the health effects possible for ionizing radiation cancer, heritable genetic effects, and reproductive and developmental effects.
These health risks are associated with exposures to tritium through inhalation, ingestion of HTO” [Tritiated Water] “or OBT” [Organically Bound Tritium] “, or absorption of HTO through the skin. The health effects of ionizing radiation are proportional to the energy carried by the radiation and delivered to living cells.
… The following exposure pathways were considered:
Tritiated water vapor entering the body through respiration
Tritium ingested with water during swimming or wading, home-grown foods, or breast-milk (in the case of infants) and absorbed into the body through the gastro-intestinal tract
Tritium from tritiated water vapor in air taken through the skin
Tritium from tritiated water in surface water taken through the skin during activities that involve dermal contact with the contaminated water, i.e., washing, swimming, and wading in surface water
Tritium transferred from the body water of pregnant women to the developing fetus” http://www2.lbl.gov/ehs/esg/tritium/tritium/TritCh2.html (Emphasis Added)
BOTTOM LINE....ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION...IT'S YOUR LIFE.
DEMAND AN END TO THESE DAMNABLE KILLING MACHINES.
WE NEVER NEEDED NUCLEAR ENERGY, WE WILL NEVER NEED NUCLEAR ENERGY.
THERE ARE SAFER, BETTER, CHEAPER, WISER AND BLOODY WELL LESS MURDEROUS WAYS TO CREATE ENERGY.
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