Vermont to VY: pretty pretty please?

Vermont to VY: pretty pretty please?

http://www.wptz.com/news/30315388/detail.html

Vt. Yankee Says No
MONTPELIER, Vt.-- The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant once again is refusing the state's request that it conduct more tests for radioactive tritium in a former drinking water well on the plant grounds.

Officials in the administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin maintain the tests could show whether tritium that leaked from the plant had had reached a deep underground bedrock aquifer. It already has shown up in numerous test wells nearer the surface.

Time to bring in the state police with guns, then the state to take a sample or everyone is going to jail?

Ultimately its about the bragging rights of did the radioactivity get into the drinking water or aquifer...

Mike Mulligan wrote:

Ultimately its about the bragging rights of did the radioactivity get into the drinking water or aquifer...

If you paid attention Mike, you would know that there has not been any tritium detected in any of the numerous drinking water wells that are still being tested.

Every knows that if you stop testing a drinking water well when it tests positive radioactive contamination, it no longer "counts" as either a drinking water well or a test well.
Now the state contractor can feel free to "accidently leave it off" future reports like they did with the cobalt 60 found in the Connecticut river years ago.
Entergy and the state of Vermont's department of health can continue to claim that "no drinking water wells have shown signs of radioactive contamination".

Apparently, according to the Vt department of health's website link:
"Tritium & Gamma Spectroscopy Test Results PDF document":
http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/do...

If you look on page 43 where the results of the construction office building drinking water well are located, they have done just that. No mention of the October 2010 positive for radioactive contamination test result.

I suppose I am suprised the results include any test results from said well at all.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153904/nukespea...

Mike Mulligan wrote:

Time to bring in the state police with guns, then the state to take a sample or everyone is going to jail?

No not with the damn S.P. mikey. In the first place, the 'State Police' are not authorized to exist in the Vermont State Constitution, the Guvornator is limited to using only true police 'officers'(elected Sheriffs and deputies) but to help the sheriffs etc. the Guvernator COULD re-institute the (once sovereign) State *militias to all enforce a Governor's order to 'SHUT-R-DOWN', and the militia is the real 'teeth' of 'We The People' since it IS WTP. Any security goons and/or feds get in the way and the sovereign State's armed Authorities have the Right to shoot them.
That's why we have the Second Amendment and the equivilent in the Vermont State Supreme Law.
Greenmountainboys.us/uomv.html
Constitution.org/mil/Vt/mil_usvt.htm
But of course B 4 it comes to those blows, the Guvna can have the sheriffs and deputies and WTP militia all enforce VELCO pulling the VY outgoing juice plug

What well wrote:

Apparently, according to the Vt department of health's website link:
"Tritium & Gamma Spectroscopy Test Results PDF document":
http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/do...
If you look on page 43 where the results of the construction office building drinking water well are located, they have done just that. No mention of the October 2010 positive for radioactive contamination test result.
I suppose I am suprised the results include any test results from said well at all.

I guess your searching skills are lacking as here is the text that is still on the VDH website for October 8, 2010.

I get that you don't like nuclear power and VY but there is no need engage in deception to get your point across. Unless your position is so fragile that the only way make a case is to engage in said deception...

"Construction Office Building Sample Tests Positive for Tritium
Entergy Vermont Yankee officials notified the Department of Health this afternoon about a positive tritium sample from the Construction Office Building (COB) well. This well had been used in the past for drinking water, but it was taken out of service in March 2010 and is not being used for drinking water. The sample measured at a tritium concentration of1,040 picocuries per liter (pCi/L).

The COB well is about 360 feet deep, and the sample that tested positive for tritium was taken at a depth of 200 to 220 feet while hydrogeological contractors were conducting what is called packer testing. Packer testing is used to isolate specific fractures in the bedrock to analyze the water in that fracture. A sample from the COB well at a fracture at 300 to 320 feet in depth tested at less than the lower limit of detection for tritium. The lower limit of detection is usually less than 500 pCi/L.

Packer testing is this well was immediately stopped to allow for investigation into the possibility that the testing equipment or process itself cross-contaminated the well.

The Vermont Department of Health had requested a split sample from the COB well for all packer testing sites. This particular site sample was shipped to the Department of Health today.

Vermont Department of Health samples from the Vernon Elementary School and numerous private residences off-site near the plant have not shown tritium levels greater than the lower limit of detection, nor have they measured any other nuclear power plant-related radioactive materials since this tritium investigation began in January.

The Environmental Protection Agency limit for tritium in drinking water is 20,000 pCi/L. "

What well wrote:

Every knows that if you stop testing a drinking water well when it tests positive radioactive contamination, it no longer "counts" as either a drinking water well or a test well.
Now the state contractor can feel free to "accidently leave it off" future reports like they did with the cobalt 60 found in the Connecticut river years ago.
Entergy and the state of Vermont's department of health can continue to claim that "no drinking water wells have shown signs of radioactive contamination".

Here is is from the Report on Public Health Monitoring dated December 2011 also located on the same website.

Stick to bashing religious idiots.

"The Construction Office Building (COB) well, a Vermont Yankee drinking water well,
was taken off-line as a drinking water source on February 25, 2010. The COB well is
approximately 360 feet deep. During testing of the off-line COB well in September and
October of 2010, a sample taken at the 200 to 220 foot depth tested pos itive for tritium at
a concentration of 1,050 pCi/L. A sample taken at the lower depth of 300 to 320 feet was
less than the lower limit of detection for tr itium. No gamma-emitting materials or hard-
to-detect radioactive metals were identified in either of these COB water samples. No
additional samples from the COB well have been obtained since October 2010."

It may appear in some off the beaten path pages of the website, but there is no record of it in the official "Tritium & Gamma Spectroscopy Test Results":
http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/do...

...page 43 where the results of the construction office building drinking water well are located, they have done just that. No mention of the October 2010 positive for radioactive contamination test result.

What well wrote:

It may appear in some off the beaten path pages of the website, but there is no record of it in the official "Tritium & Gamma Spectroscopy Test Results":
http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/do...
...page 43 where the results of the construction office building drinking water well are located, they have done just that. No mention of the October 2010 positive for radioactive contamination test result.

No, it was included on page 65 of the 2010 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Public Health Monitoring Report which I quoted above and which can be found quite easily right here:

http://healthvermont.gov/pubs/Publications.as...

It doesn't get any more official than that.

Don't be angry at me because you jumped the gun and got caught.

I thought you'd be more mature than that.

I am pointing out that it is not shown in the "Tritium & Gamma Spectroscopy Test Results":
http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/do...

If one were to only look at the lab reports, rather than sift through the entire departmemnt of health archive, they would not find radioactive contamination in any drinking water wells. Just because it is found "somewhere else" on the website does not mean it is acceptable to omit the information in the lab reports.
The October 2010 test result showing radioactive contamination in the construction office building drinking water well should be found in the lab reports, the omission of this important event is not only misleading, it is most probably illegal.

What well wrote:

the omission of this important event is not only misleading, it is most probably illegal.

So you are just going to bitch about this so-called illegal activity on a message board and continue to ignore the fact that it is discussed in the annual report?

You are an idiot and just as blind as those religious zealots you mock.

How come palisades is in the top first five plants in the nation and Entergy had so much fleet wide training on following procedures, telling the truth and being ethical these past few years.

The magnitude of ethics training fleet wide...?

Why?

How come palisades is in the top first five worst plants in the nation and Entergy...

What well wrote:

I am pointing out that it is not shown in the "Tritium & Gamma Spectroscopy Test Results":
http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/do...
If one were to only look at the lab reports, rather than sift through the entire departmemnt of health archive, they would not find radioactive contamination in any drinking water wells. Just because it is found "somewhere else" on the website does not mean it is acceptable to omit the information in the lab reports.
The October 2010 test result showing radioactive contamination in the construction office building drinking water well should be found in the lab reports, the omission of this important event is not only misleading, it is most probably illegal.

It is not in the report because the well did not test positive for tritium. The well is 360 ft deep. They tested a sample at 200 ft and found tritium. They then tested at 300 ft and found no tritium. They technically never tested the well, but fractures in the bedrock at closer levels to ground.

To achieve a proper sample of the COB well, they would have to purge the well which could introduce tritium to the well. There is no reason to test this well. It will provide no additional informative result.

Again, the fact that it is found on an annual report does not make it right to leave it out of the lab reports. Any omission of radioactive contamination in a public document is unacceptable.

I might add that not everyone spends all of their time trolling the Brattleboro topix forum like you "I Troll More Than You".
This is not the only avenue I am pursuing. Sometimes a bit of public exposure helps to get the wheels turning.
It was brought to their attention quite a while back and they have failed to fix it. I will again be lodging complaints up the food chain until it is.

See, that is just lazy shit with the anti nukes, they can't keep up with current events and don't know what they mean.

Don't even care how the tritium issue fits into the big puzzle?

So why doesn't the shumlin speak Entergy fleet issues... with a record of Entegrity like that how can we trust them for another 20 years.

The well did test positive for radioactive contamination at a level that was deeper than any other well on site.
This is an important data point that directly contradicts Vermont Yankee's hydrology report which seems to indicate that all the water on the plants property is not subject to the laws of gravity and only flows up, thereby conveniently posing no danger to the areas aquifer.
If the aquifer under Vermont Yankee is to become contaminated, the COB drinking water well is probably the most likely path as it is a deep well located inside the plume of known radioactive contamination.
If the levels of radoactive contamination in the COB well are not monitored and the aquifer is being contaminated via that path, the public will not know if the aquifer is contaminated until radioactive isotopes show up in another well, like the well at Vernon Elementary.
But by then, it will be too late to do anything meaningful about it.
Purging may not be neccecary, there are other methods of testing.