"'Equipment failures and human error are the nexus of catastrophic nuclear accidents,' said Marilyn Elie of Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition's Leadership Council. 'Indian Point has had a series of relatively small incidents because of equipment failures and faulty judgment on the part of staff in the last year. How bad does it have to get before the risk is apparent to all? We are all safer with the plant closed. The lives of 20 million people who live within 50 miles of the reactors are at risk, as are their families, pets and property.'"
"'Tritiated water is just the tip of the iceberg,' continues Elie. 'This water will invariably carry with it other radioactive isotopes that are found inside of containment, all deadly and all carcinogenic. It needs to be noted that these isotopes are released regularly and routinely in water through the discharge canal that leads to the Hudson River in far greater quantities than seem to be happening now. There is no safe level of exposure to low level radiation and yet we live with this in our community year after year.'"
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On February 11, 2016, The New York Daily News r eported that"New samples from groundwater monitoring wells show 80% higher concentrations of tritium compared with when the leak was first reported Saturday". 'Last week the company reported alarming levels of radioactivity at three monitoring wells, with one well's radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000%, Cuomo said.''The trends of unexpected outages and environmental incidents like these are extremely disconcerting'". 'The news just keeps getting worse,' said Paul Gallay, president of the watchdog group Riverkeeper. 'Our concerns go beyond the spike in tritium levels. This is about a disturbing recurrence of serious malfunctions -- seven over the last eight months.'"
"Environmental watchdogs are calling for the Indian Point nuclear power plant to shut down while investigators try to determine how an apparent overflow spilled highly radioactive water into an underground well. 'Indian Point had seven different malfunctions since May of 2015 . . . the next one could be a catastrophe,' Paul Gallay, president of Riverkeeper, said Sunday.
'The stakes are just too high,' said Gallay, whose group is dedicated to protecting the Hudson River and the drinking water supply of 9 million city and Hudson Valley residents."".'If you are the 45-year-old Indian Point nuclear power plant, you malfunction -- it's just what you do,' said Gallay. 'This plant isn't safe anymore.'"
Five More Nuclear Power Plant Flashpoints
Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, Florida - Florida Power & Light Co.
"Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Is Pumping Polluted Water Into Biscayne Bay"saysan article in Miami New Times on March 8, 2016. " As Florida Power & Light finalized plans to expand its nuclear reactors at Turkey Point three years ago, critics were aghast. The nuclear plant already stands on environmentally fragile land, and upping the power production would seriously threaten the ecosystem, they argued. Turns out they may have been right. This morning, the county released the results of a study into whether Turkey Point has been leaking dangerous wastewater into Biscayne Bay. County water monitors found more than 200 times the normal levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope linked to nuclear power production, in the bay water, a finding environmentalists say justifies their concerns"
In a you tube published March 30, 2016, titled "'Power or water?': Nuclear leak heading towards aquifer near Miami", Marina Portnaya from RT America, reports that "Elevated levels of ammonia, phosphorous and radioactive compounds have been detected in cooling canals connected to the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant south of Miami, Florida, and are approaching the Biscayne Aquifer. Environmentalists have threatened to sue the company responsible, citing violations of the Clean Water Act."
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Massachusetts [where I live] - Entergy Nuclear Operations
In October 2015, Entergy, owner of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts - a General Electric, (GE) Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Mark I, same as Fukushima - had said it would close the plant down no later than 2019, maybe sooner. Pilgrim is ranked by the NRC in category 4, making it the worst performing nuclear reactor in the United States (along with Arkansas Nuclear One, also Entergy owned.) The next step is federally mandated shut down by the NRC. Eleven no-nuclear-power groups, working together from several states, find that unacceptable. We are calling MA governor Charlie Baker to tell the NRC to close Pilgrim now. Three GE scientists working on Fukushima resigned in 1976, calling the design faulty.
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