[CPEO-MEF] RADIATiON: Nevada Test Site tritium

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

RADIOACTIVE REMNANTS: Scientists monitoring groundwater from Nevada Test 
Site area for contamination

Monitoring relies on plugging data into computer model

By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL (NV)
July 27, 2009

Radioactive groundwater laced with remnants of Cold War nuclear weapons 
tests is inching its way beyond the Nevada Test Site boundary where 
scientists expect they will soon find it for the first time.

The concentration of tritium is much higher than safe drinking water 
guidelines, but Department of Energy officials note it will be found 
within the surrounding Air Force range in an area not accessible by the 
public.

The pad and sump, or pit, for what's labeled Well EC-11 are being 
completed, with the first samples to be collected as drilling proceeds 
in the next three months, the federal scientist in charge of the project 
said Friday.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lvrj.com/news/51776577.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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