{"id":111,"date":"2013-02-14T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/radioactive-tritium-leak-at-plant-hatch-discovered-yesterday.html"},"modified":"2013-02-14T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T21:04:27","slug":"radioactive-tritium-leak-at-plant-hatch-discovered-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/radioactive-tritium-leak-at-plant-hatch-discovered-yesterday.html","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive tritium leak at Plant Hatch discovered yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWill Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers say this tritium leak at Plant Hatch\nis not a problem, like he did\n\nabout the one in September 2011?<\/a>\nMeanwhile, how many tritium leaks have you heard of from solar\npanels or wind mills?\n<\/p>\n

\nAccording to the NRC’s Event Notification Report for February 14, 2013,\n\nOFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE TO TRITIUM RELEASE ONSITE<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n“As part of routine rounds on 2\/13\/13, site personnel discovered an\n\n<\/a>\noverflow condition at a collection tank containing water with low\nlevels of tritium (approximately 6,000 pCi\/L). The discharge pump\nfor the tank was found to be nonfunctional which resulted in the\noverflow condition. Following discovery, a portable pump was\nutilized to pump the water to the normal monitored discharge path\nand terminate the overflow condition. The exact volume could not be\ndetermined but it is estimated that the volume of water that\noverflowed to the ground was greater than the 100 gallon threshold\nfor voluntary reporting as indicated in Nuclear Energy Institute\n(NEI) 07-07, ‘Industry Ground Water Initiative-Final Guidance\nDocument.’ A rough estimate of the release is between 100 and 300\ngallons. The tritium was contained to a small area on the plant site\nin the vicinity of the discharge structure, and there is no\nsignificant potential for off-site impact or impact to on-site\npersonnel.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Because the leak remained on site, there will be no offsite impact\nto drinking water sources. Furthermore, the release posed no threat\nto employees or the public. Southern Nuclear [SNC] will continue to\nmonitor the affected area as required.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nSure, and\n\nthey’ve got a ten-mile-radius emergency plan<\/a> for Plant Hatch, too!\nNevermind the Floridan Aquifer that underlies the whole coastal plain hereabouts,\nand that we drink from over here, only 100 miles from Plant Hatch.\nThe report says they’ll report to the state:\n<\/p>\n\n\n

\n

\n“In accordance with SNC’s groundwater protection procedures and the\nNEI guidance, a voluntary notification of this discovery will be\nmade to the State of Georgia Environmental Protection Division and\nother agencies to inform them of this matter. The NRC Region II\nResident Inspector was also notified.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Reference: Condition Report 589402. Event occurred at 1111 EST,\ndecision to make offsite notifications authorized at 1545 EST.”\n<\/p>\n

\nThe tank was the outfall collection tank. Environmental Protection\nAgency limit for tritium in drinking water is 20,000 pCi\/l.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nOr we could\n\nshift to conservation, efficiency, sun, and wind,<\/a>\nand not worry about radioactive tritium.\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n

\nPS: Owed to William Turner.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers say this tritium leak at Plant Hatch is not a problem, like he did about the one in September 2011? Meanwhile, how many tritium leaks have you heard of from solar panels or wind mills? According to the NRC’s Event Notification Report for February 14, 2013, OFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,8,18,2,19,104,32,55],"tags":[8706,8701,8708,8699,8709,8702,620,12,7,117,8737,105,8715,109,6,8727],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-government","category-history","category-nuclear","category-pollution","category-water","tag-environment","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-government","tag-history","tag-lake","tag-leak","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nrc","tag-nuclear","tag-plant-hatch","tag-pollution","tag-tritium","tag-valdosta","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}