{"id":16,"date":"2013-03-23T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/even-the-smallest-amount-of-tritium-can-have-negative-health-impacts-and-most-nukes-leak-tritium.html"},"modified":"2013-03-23T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:46:12","slug":"even-the-smallest-amount-of-tritium-can-have-negative-health-impacts-and-most-nukes-leak-tritium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/even-the-smallest-amount-of-tritium-can-have-negative-health-impacts-and-most-nukes-leak-tritium.html","title":{"rendered":"Even the smallest amount of tritium can have negative health impacts, and most nukes leak tritium."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\n<\/a>\nReceived yesterday on\n\nNuclear Plant Hatch radioactive leaks<\/a>. Tritium (3<\/sup><\/small>H, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen)\nis the stuff nuclear Plant Hatch\nis letting leak into our groundwater.\nNRC lists 44 leaking sites<\/a>\nout of 65 active reactor locations.\nNo solar or wind plants leak tritium.\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n

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\nIn case you haven’t seen this yet:\n\nTRITIUM: HEALTH CONSEQUENCES<\/a>.\nExcerpt:\n<\/p>\n

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\nMost studies indicate that tritium in living creatures can produce\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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\nThere is no evidence of a threshold for\ndamage from 3<\/sup><\/small>H exposure;\neven the smallest amount of tritium can have negative health\nimpacts.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\ntypical radiogenic effects including cancer, genetic effects,\ndevelopmental abnormalities and reproductive effects. (Straume)\nTritium can cause mutations, tumors and cell death. (Rytomaa)\nTritiated water is associated with significantly decreased weight of\nbrain and genital tract organs in mice (Torok) and can cause\nirreversible loss of female germ cells in both mice and monkeys even\nat low concentrations. (Dobson, 1979)\n<\/p>\n

\nStudies indicate that lower doses of tritium can cause more cell\ndeath (Dobson, 1976), mutations (Ito) and chromosome damage (Hori)\nper dose than higher tritium doses. Tritium can impart damage which\nis two or more times greater per dose than either x-rays or gamma\nrays. (Straume) (Dobson, 1976)\n<\/p>\n

\nThere is no evidence of a threshold for\ndamage from 3<\/sup><\/small>H exposure;\neven the smallest amount of tritium can have negative health\nimpacts.\n(Dobson, 1974) Organically bound tritium (tritium bound in\nanimal or plant tissue) can stay in the body for 10 years or more.\nWhile tritiated water may be cleared from the human body in about 10\ndays (Garland), if a person lives in an area where tritium\ncontamination continues, he or she can experience chronic exposure\nto tritium. (Laskey) Tritium from tritiated water can become\nincorporated into DNA, the molecular basis of heredity for living\norganisms. DNA is especially sensitive to radiation. (Hori) A cell’s\nexposure to tritium bound in DNA can be even more toxic than its\nexposure to tritium in water. (Straume)(Carr)\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nCindy Folkers,\n\nNIRS<\/a>, April 2006\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nPosted by: William Saenz\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received yesterday on Nuclear Plant Hatch radioactive leaks. Tritium (3H, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) is the stuff nuclear Plant Hatch is letting leak into our groundwater. NRC lists 44 leaking sites out of 65 active reactor locations. No solar or wind plants leak tritium. -jsq In case you haven’t seen this yet: TRITIUM: HEALTH […]","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":[18,2,104,32,73],"tags":[116,113,114,8701,8708,8699,111,8702,12,112,117,8737,118,106,105,107,8715,110,8731,108,115,109,119],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia-power","category-government","category-nuclear","category-pollution","category-safety","tag-cesium","tag-fish","tag-garden","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-government","tag-groundwater","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-milk","tag-nrc","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-regulatory-commission","tag-plant-farley","tag-plant-hatch","tag-plant-vogtle","tag-pollution","tag-radioactive","tag-safety","tag-southern-company","tag-swamp","tag-tritium","tag-william-saenz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}