[CPEO-MEF] Tritium from Canadian nuclear power plants

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tritium danger underrated, report says
But regulators insist radioactive substance found in lakes near reactors 
is not a health risk

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Toronto Globe and Mail (ONT)
June 12, 2007

Releases of radioactive tritium from Canadian nuclear power plants are 
so elevated that children under 4 and pregnant women shouldn't live 
within 10 kilometres of an atomic generating station, and those living 
within five kilometres shouldn't eat food grown in their gardens, 
Greenpeace says in a controversial study being released Tuesday.

Canadian-style Candu reactors are among the world's largest sources of 
tritium, producing up to hundreds of times more of the radioactive 
substance than other reactor designs. The report says high amounts of 
tritium in the Great Lakes and around the stations indicate nuclear 
plants routinely emit it into the environment.

The Greenpeace report calls Health Canada's standard for the level of 
tritium in drinking water "very lax" because it is about 10 times higher 
than that of the United States and 100 times higher than the level 
allowed in Europe.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070612.wtritium12/EmailBNStory/National/home

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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