Hey Giraffe! You're glowing. No, I mean, you're actually glowing.

[Bill]

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Minnesota Nuke Plant Admits To 400,000 Gallon Leak Of Radioactive Water

by Tyler Durden
Friday, Mar 17, 2023 - 08:10 AM

Minnesotans are wondering why state regulators waited months to inform the public that hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant.

Minnesota Department of Health released a statement Thursday about Xcel's efforts to clean up 400,000 gallons of the water containing tritium that leaked from a water pipe running between two buildings at its plant.

Xcel first reported the leak to the Minnesota Duty Officer and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November, but the spill was only made public this week.

"The leak was stopped and the company is monitoring the groundwater plume through two dozen wells. An estimated 20% of the tritium has been recovered through extraction wells, and contaminated water continues to be pumped from the groundwater," the health department wrote.

Local officials said the leak "poses no health and safety risk to the local community or environment" and has not reached the Mississippi River or surrounding aquifers.

Xcel said the leaked radioactive water is "fully contained on-site and has not been detected beyond the facility or in any local drinking water."

And if the leak of tritium-tainted water 'poses no health and safety risk to the local community or environment,' why did the company and government officials hide the incident from the public for months?

[Aerovette]

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[Giraffe (He/Him)]

I’m aware. It’s being discussed at length believe me.

[MikeB]

Gonna have to tell Banjos and Buicks to watch for 3 eyed fish down there in NOLA land.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

That Biden freak might be able to help us with this. If it’s not in court of course.

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Giraffe (He/Him)

I’m aware. It’s being discussed at length believe me.

Good luck-, I will add you to the list of people that I know that has a high "Zoomies" count!

[Onebadcad]

Plenty of liberals and socialists in MN, I bet they figure it out,,,

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

Plenty of liberals and socialists in MN, I bet they figure it out,,,

[Libs] Better than fossil fuels[/libs]

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Giraffe (He/Him)

That Biden freak might be able to help us with this. If it’s not in court of course.

Help? You mean, like he helped the people in East Palestine, IL? Help like that?

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by MikeB

Gonna have to tell Banjos and Buicks to watch for 3 eyed fish down there in NOLA land.

Just another weird thing to throw into his gumbo.

[DAB]

if everyone just takes home one gallon, then everyone will have a nite light for the next few years....duh....

dilution is the solution to pollution!

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Good luck-, I will add you to the list of people that I know that has a high "Zoomies" count!

With the exception of a couple jobs, one being in the RCP (Reactor Coolant Pump) vault and a valve replacement on the reactor head (that one was giving off some
shine) my occupational dose is pretty low actually. PWRs are typically cleaner than BWRs.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

Just another weird thing to throw into his gumbo.

Did you ever see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Now imagine 6' tall ravenous nutrias running around the bayou with a bad attitude because they know humans caused their transformation.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

And now a downpower three weeks before a refueling outage.



https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...b-40f8c16bf680

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Giraffe (He/Him)

And now a downpower three weeks before a refueling outage.



https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...b-40f8c16bf680

These remind me that it's all relative, and the press will run with anything.

I worked a space program that had a circuit that used tritium to perform an emergency function. Funny part is that the tritium amounted to about the same that is contained in a GTLS watch. We had to jump through all sorts of crap, including predicting death rate from a launch that didn't make orbit, to having extra precautions for de-orbit. People are stupid, and other people take advantage of that.

I would bet that the unplanned release has about the same risk as wearing a GTLS watch.