These two things I know are true; water flows down hill and Friday afternoon is when the health department and Vermont Yankee release troublesome news. This past Friday afternoon, reports from the Vt. Health Dept. leached slowly into the weekend news flow that two monitoring wells(one near a former drinking water well )showed elevated levels of radioactive tritium.
A Vermont Yankee spokesman saw this as good news because he claimed it showed the tritiated water was moving away from the area of the water well and toward the Connecticut River.
The state Health Department, reporting the test results late Friday afternoon, was less positive, calling them “of particular concern” because it meant tritium was again found in the area of a former drinking well. The detection of tritium in that well in October raised concerns because it was deeper than previous findings, suggesting that the radioactive isotope could be headed into aquifers that reach the public water supply.
In mid-November Vermont Yankee shut down it’s voluntary contaminated water extraction effort after shipping out, by truck to Tennessee 300,000 gallons of water for disposal processing. Monitoring will continue and an NRC report on the ground water extraction is due out sometime in January. The NRC held a non-public exit meeting[?] in November no findings where released
The NRC’s Sheehan said, however, that there were higher concentrations closer to the Connecticut River as the plume has moved, which was expected.
Check for more updates any Friday afternoon.
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