[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Radioactive tritium found in leak at South Carolina nuclear plant"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radioactive tritium found in leak at South Carolina nuclear plant

By Harriet McLeod 
Reuters 
May 15, 2013

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - More than 100 gallons of water containing radioactive tritium has leaked from a discharge pipe at the Catawba Nuclear Station near Lake Wylie, South Carolina, and could reach groundwater, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Wednesday.

The leak, which was found Tuesday night in a fiberglass discharge pipe from the turbine building sump pump, occurred about a half-mile inside the station's grounds, said officials at Duke Energy Corp, the plant's operator.

Although the leak has the potential to reach groundwater, samples indicated a small concentration of tritium, officials said.

"If you do the calculations on that amount of tritium, it's less than half of the Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water standard," said Roger Hannah, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's regional office in Atlanta.

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For the entire article, see
http://news.yahoo.com/radioactive-tritium-found-leak-south-carolina-nuclear-plant-215738052.html

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