2nd Radioactive Leak at U.S. Nuke Plant Fixed
A new leak of radioactive material has been found and fixed at the troubled Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, officials said.
Vapor and water containing 13 different radioactive substances was found late Friday coming from a pipe in a hole workers dug to find the source of an earlier leak.
"This was a new leak," Vermont Yankee spokesman Larry Smith said in an e-mail Saturday. "The leak has been stopped. ... There is no threat to public health or safety."
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission also said the public faced no danger.
Spokeswoman Diane Screnci said an NRC inspector will arrive Tuesday to help the two agency inspectors assigned to the plant year-round. She said they will look at company efforts to find what caused the leak, the repair of the piping, and remediation of any effects of the leak.
"The observed short duration and small volume of leakage from the drain line appears to indicate that the event did not result in any impact to public health and safety," according to an NRC statement.
Vermont Yankee was recently off line for routine maintenance and refueling. It went back in operation and was reconnected to the New England power grid early Saturday. Smith said the plant is expected to be running at 100 percent within the week.
The leak was the second mishap connected with the startup. On Wednesday, the reactor "scrammed" - went into automatic shutdown - when a problem developed with equipment in the switchyard where it connects to the power grid.
In January, plant officials announced that radioactive tritium, which can cause cancer when ingested in large amounts, had turned up in a monitoring well. In investigating, the company spent months digging wells, only to find more tritium and other radioactive substances.
Meanwhile, plant officials acknowledged they had misled state regulators and lawmakers regarding whether the plant had underground pipes that carried radioactive substances. The radioactive tritium was found in an underground pipe.
Vermont is the only state with a law authorizing the Legislature to vote on renewing the license of a nuclear plant. In February, the state Senate voted against a bill to give the plant the green light.
Consequently, the plant could close when its current license expires in March of 2012, although supporters of Vermont Yankee hope lawmakers will take the question up again in 2011.
The 38-year-old plant's 650-megawatt reactor produces electricity used throughout the northeastern New England states. Owned by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., the plant is located on the Connecticut River in southeast Vermont, not far from the Massachusetts border.
© 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Vapor and water containing 13 different radioactive substances was found late Friday coming from a pipe in a hole workers dug to find the source of an earlier leak.
"This was a new leak," Vermont Yankee spokesman Larry Smith said in an e-mail Saturday. "The leak has been stopped. ... There is no threat to public health or safety."
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission also said the public faced no danger.
Spokeswoman Diane Screnci said an NRC inspector will arrive Tuesday to help the two agency inspectors assigned to the plant year-round. She said they will look at company efforts to find what caused the leak, the repair of the piping, and remediation of any effects of the leak.
"The observed short duration and small volume of leakage from the drain line appears to indicate that the event did not result in any impact to public health and safety," according to an NRC statement.
Vermont Yankee was recently off line for routine maintenance and refueling. It went back in operation and was reconnected to the New England power grid early Saturday. Smith said the plant is expected to be running at 100 percent within the week.
The leak was the second mishap connected with the startup. On Wednesday, the reactor "scrammed" - went into automatic shutdown - when a problem developed with equipment in the switchyard where it connects to the power grid.
In January, plant officials announced that radioactive tritium, which can cause cancer when ingested in large amounts, had turned up in a monitoring well. In investigating, the company spent months digging wells, only to find more tritium and other radioactive substances.
Meanwhile, plant officials acknowledged they had misled state regulators and lawmakers regarding whether the plant had underground pipes that carried radioactive substances. The radioactive tritium was found in an underground pipe.
Vermont is the only state with a law authorizing the Legislature to vote on renewing the license of a nuclear plant. In February, the state Senate voted against a bill to give the plant the green light.
Consequently, the plant could close when its current license expires in March of 2012, although supporters of Vermont Yankee hope lawmakers will take the question up again in 2011.
The 38-year-old plant's 650-megawatt reactor produces electricity used throughout the northeastern New England states. Owned by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., the plant is located on the Connecticut River in southeast Vermont, not far from the Massachusetts border.
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The amount of radioactivity released by all the nuclear accidents in history is far less than amount of radon gas released by a single coal plant in a single year.
Don't give in to the antinuclear hysteria of non-scientists who have no idea of what they are talking about.
It's had two leaks now, so the time to close it is NOW.
It's funny that everyone always waits until there is a major catastrophe.
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Press Release; 04/22/2010
GAGUT?S INFALLIBILITY FURTHER VERIFIED BY RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN SCIENTISTS.
GOD ALMIGHTY?S GRAND UNIFIED THEOREM (GAGUT) Gij,j=0, as an infallible revelation from GOD, has been experimentally verified again by Russian and American scientists. The experiment was done as a joint collaboration between Russian Scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and American Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
article.wn.com/view/2010/04/07/Superheavy_Element_117_Nuclear_Missing_Link/
Their experiment clearly verified the GAGUT Singular Element Discovery (GSED) through which GOD revealed through Professor G. Oyibo that the periodic table has Africrogen (Africa the Origin) formerly called Hydrogen (Hide the Origin) as the only element, and the rest 117 ?elements? on the periodic table are nuclear compounds of Africrogen. GOD revealed the secret of the Black Magic to Professor G. Oyibo as can be seen on the following youtube and veoh.com videos;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CPdZCu2ip4&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbdVAd66qQw
www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/GAGUT#watch%3Dv88753233KEh9Kqp
In the videos above, Professor G. Oyibo was ordered by GOD to decode and reveal the secret of the Black Magic, a feat which Sir Isaac Newton and other Scientific Legends unsuccessfully tried to accomplish. Professor G. Oyibo explained the Black Magic, as used by Ancient Africans to turn scrap metal into gold, as a fusing of two atoms (each with its own number of Africrogen units) to get a third one (with its own number of Africrogen units). Professor G. Oyibo specifically proved that one can produce gold, Au (79 Africrogen units) by fusing praseodymium, Pr (59 Africrogen units) to calcium, Ca (20 Africrogen units) or that Pr (59 Africrogen units) + Ca ( 20 Africrogen units)?> Au (79 Africrogen units). This is the GAGUT formula that was copied and used by the Russian and American Scientists to produce GAGUTIUM 117. These scientists basically fused calcium, Ca (20 Africrogen units) to berkelium, Bk (97 Africrogen units) to produce the new so called ?element? GAGUTIUM 117 (117 Africrogen units) or that Bk (97 Africrogen units) + Ca (20 Africrogen units)?> GAGUTIUM 117 (117 Africrogen units). The Experiment was precisely done as prescribed by Professor G. Oyibo through the three videos above, note the scientists even used calcium (20 Africrogen units) which Professor G. Oyibo used in the video above, in their experiment. What does this mean to humanity? This means that GOD has ordained the new so called element to be called GAGUTIUM 117, that the educational curricula globally be revised to teach GAGUT and that Professor G. Oyibo is the Greatest Genius ever created, since GAGUT has been proven to be an infallible revelation from GOD. Call us at the Telephone numbers above. GOD bless you
John Glover
Director of GAGUT GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION PROGRAM (GGERP)
How many more games of Russian roulette do we want to play?
We need green technology. We need an energy bill that will create green technology. And we need a Senate that will stop filibustering President Obama's attempts to create green tech simply because they want America to Fail so they can win the next election.
I'm fed up with the GOP minority in the Senate who are more interested in the next election cycle than in saving this nation. I'm also fed up with the ignorami that keep sending this sorry crew to Washington.
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Press Release: 04/23/2010
GAGUT HAS REVEALED TO PROF. G. OYIBO, THE SOLUTION TO A 153 YEARS OLD RIDDLE CALLED THE RIEMANN?S HYPOTHESIS, A CLAY MATH MILLENNIUM PROBLEM.
GOD ALMIGHTY?S GRAND UNIFIED THEOREM (GAGUT) Gij,j=0,
as an infallible revelation by GOD through Professor G. Oyibo, of the sacred understanding of all of the provable and proven truths and theorems of the Universe, as expected has revealed the solution to the 153 year old riddle called the Riemann?s Hypothesis to Professor G. Oyibo Professor David Hilbert, considered the last of the great Mathematicians first listed the Riemann?s Hypothesis as one of the significant unsolved mathematics problems over 80 years ago and it has resisted solution in spite of the attempts by legendary mathematicians to solve it. During the year 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute of Harvard University listed the Riemann?s Hypothesis as one of the seven toughest mathematics problems called the Millennium problems and offered 1 Million US dollars for the solution to the Riemann?s Hypothesis. Professor Bernhard Riemann, who formulated the Riemann?s Hypothesis, a legendary mathematician and a doctoral student of a greatest mathematician of all time, called Professor Carl Frederick Gauss were both together with Professor David Hilbert associated with Goettingen University in Germany. Goettingen University celebrated Gauss?s 150th anniversary in 2005 by selecting 52 greatest works in Mathematics and Computer Science that included a book of GAGUT which they recommended to be studied by the whole world in honor of Professor Gauss. That listing from Goettingen can be seen in the following link:
http://gagut5.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gagut-recognized-as-a-greatest
The revelation of the solution to the Riemann?s Hypothesis, considered by many mathematicians as the most significant unsolved pure mathematics problem, by GOD to Professor G. Oyibo through GAGUT can only be considered as yet another one of GOD?s declarations of GAGUT as an infallible revelation through which GOD has not only called all human beings to study GAGUT, but also that GOD has ordained Professor G. Oyibo as the greatest mathematician, the greatest genius as well as the most intelligent human being ever created. We humans can only say PRAISE GOD due to such a huge blessing from the Almighty GOD. Call us at the telephone numbers above. GOD bless you.
John Glover
Director of GAGUT GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION PROGRAM (GGERP)