[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Nevada Test Site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Radioactive tritium found off nuclear test site for first time

By Mary Manning (contact)
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
October 20, 2009

Scientists have found radioactive tritium from nuclear tests in Nevada 
contaminating groundwater off the Nevada Test Site for the first time.

However, state and federal studies indicated the contaminated 
groundwater would leave the nuclear site within 50 years.

A groundwater sample taken in a new well drilled on Air Force land 
contained tritium at about 12,500 picocuries per liter, below the 
federal Environmental Protection Agency Safe Drinking Water Act limit of 
20,000 picocuries per liter. A picocurrie is a measure of radiation in 
liquid.

The Energy Department predicted in February that groundwater 
contamination would leave the Test Site boundary near Pahute Mesa, in 
the northwest corner of the sprawling site about 85 miles northwest of 
Las Vegas.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/20/radioactive-tritium-found-nuclear-test-site-first-/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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