Radioactive Tritium Has Leaked From Three-Quarters Of U.S. Nuclear Plants: AP Investigation

[FAGGATRON_3000 !U0FKfqmRjs No.3264340]

>BRACEVILLE, Ill. -- Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

>The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.

>Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard – sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/radioactive-tritium-leaks-us-nuclear-plants_n_881090.html

How can one support nuclear power when stories like this are out there? It's like the BP oil spill, if I'd known they had no backup plan for a burst oil pipe on the floor of the gulf, I wouldn't have supported drilling there.

[Anonymous No.3264374]

>>3264340
>How can one support nuclear power when stories like this are out there?

People crash cars, how can you support driving?
People choke on food, how can you support eating?

Mismanaged shit without proper safety mechanisms =/= well run power plants with modern designs

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3264381]

Four words.

Liquid fluoride thorium reactor.

[FAGGATRON_3000 !U0FKfqmRjs No.3264393]

>>3264374

How many convincing studies, leaks, meltdowns, played down accidents, proven cases of big time agenda cutting, spin doctoring and shameless lobbying, calculations about over all costs and unsolved problems with long term waste storage do you delusional people need to get your head around the fact that this is by far the worst thing that we've ever done to ourselves?

[Anonymous No.3266489]

>>3264340

lol, butthurt amerimads have their own nukular problems but were happy to bitch at Japan.

A bit of radioactive hydrogen isn't that bad, except maybe the explosion risk

>>3264381

Four words

Shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.3266503]

Because nuclear enegy is the safest, cleanest and the best form of enegy production we have.

sage

[Anonymous No.3266940]

>>3266503
Kill yourself with something safe and clean.

[Anonymous No.3266942]

>>3264340

Excellent. Now go and google yourself the operational fatalities associated with wind and hydroelectric. Now look for the statistics of lung cancer and bronchitus that have been directly linked to fossil fuel pollution.

Speaking of coal plant pollution, look at the composition of fly ash, and how it is more radioactive than the cooling towers of a well run nuclear power plant.

[Anonymous No.3266949]

>>3266942
You're fucking hilarious.

[Mr. J !zJD1oBlKBY No.3266956]

1: USA is in no way the most leading country when it comes to nuclear energy, and have quite a lot of old and shitty nuclear power plants
2: USA's economy is already fucked, so no money to build new ones or restore old ones.

I am so happy to live in a country with no nuclear power plants, though I'd be more than happy to see thorium reactors pop up here.