Vermont's nuke plant problems grow

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Both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Vermont Department of Health have indicated a new leak of tritiated water may have been found at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. "It doesn't appear to have any connection to the original leakage from last year," said Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the NRC. "It's evident that either groundwater can follow the human-made channels or it's another system or components that are leaking," said Bill Irwin, chief of radiological health for the Vermont DOH. Both have said the level of tritium in the ground water, 9,200 picocuries per liter, poses no danger to public health. A spokesman for Yankee said engineers have no information to indicate whether this discovery is evidence of a new leak. "We have a reading we don't understand," said Larry Smith, Yankee's director of communications. "And we are investigating to see what it means."

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