reactor leaks again in the news.

[joco]

wow.

its worst and worst..is it.?

this is no good news.

somebody should do something and put a stop to all that insane situation and what we are doing to that river.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009 ... 6-sun.html




joco

[joco]

read those news.

http://ottawariverkeeper.ca/news/

joco

[Priorguy]

Hey Joco...

Your right.. I brought this up about a month ago and yes again another leak. Of course you will have some believing and some that will tell us not to read into all the news...

The leaks are becoming more frequent.. The last leak they told us none escaped into the water and was all contained. Now we read some did escape into the water....

Who can you trust.. the people that report the news or the people that are tight lip about the actual facts. Its a coverup and a shame and this is my opnion....

[Priorguy]

Quote...

It was also discovered the reactor had been leaking up to 7,000 litres of water a day for more than a month from a crack in a weld.

And that my friends is alarming...... to say the least!

[Relic]

Yep, that's not good.

Also not good is the City of Ottawa leaking even more sewage into the river last week, and the guy responsible for the huge spill a few years back getting his job back????????

This crap happens way to often and there is little to no accountability, it's truly disgusting

[joco]

i dont no but 7000 liter a day for a month.
how can you not notice that.

no sensors or something that say there some leaks or what.


ok i no its bad for jobs at tha place if i those shut down...but hey are safety is worth a lot more then jobs..sorry.

i am sher some stuff can be donw witout cuting jobs..actualy fixing those make jobs..they need people to fix those reactor or wathver.and a lot off them.

mabe people are scare to talk because off there jobs.

what about all those people down stream gething that stuff frome that place.

people drink that water..play in it..swim in it..all the fisheries and animals that drink water direcly.

this is sad.

and this is not just that plant...a lot off other company are makinf some bad move or bad jugement and do stuff that is not ok for are water.


joco

[Jimmay]

Glad to see that Harper was right in firing Linda Keen.

[Cyber]

You really wouldn't want to know what's buried around Chalk River!!!!!!!!!

[yokes]

Anything leaking/leaching into a waterbody that is not supposed to be there is bad.

How about all that Freon-22 that got into the Ottawa River.

BTW, 7,000 L/day leak would be COOLING water (river water).

[Geos]

"Under the best of circumstances I am uncomfortable with the very idea of a nuclear reactor operating on the banks of the Ottawa River," said Brown.

The not in my backyard stance at the very begining of this artical leads me to belive all the rest of this "information" will not be accurate.
"However, when that reactor is old and prone to leaks, I am particularly concerned. Even more alarming is the fact that these leaks are not reported to the public in detail in a timely manner."

Brown also addressed statements made by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission about leaks at the site not posing a threat to the environment or public safety.

"I did the math on the amount of tritium (a highly carcinogenic substance) contained in the heavy water being released. The results were alarming."

Recently, Sun Media uncovered that the 51-year old reactor released radioactive tritium into the air during an incident on Dec. 5, 2008. It was also discovered the reactor had been leaking up to 7,000 litres of water a day for more than a month from a crack in a weld.

The CNSC said the water spewing from the weld had "a very low level of radioactivity" and is not a safety concern. The water was being dumped into the Ottawa River.

So with this writing there is an assumption that 7000 liters a day is heavy water. I dont think so.

Brown is launching a campaign calling for increased accountability regarding spills into the river.

"Often people think that the large flows of the Ottawa River will dilute the pollution and render it harmless -- this is not the case for radioactive tritium," she said.

Adding more water to anything(except more water) is still diluting anyway you look at it.
Does it make it less harmfull no.

This does seem very one sided.

[Priorguy]

I can read the front pages of the SUN.... well with a diffrent politician saying it!!!

"There's a hell of a lot of radiation Joe Fouchard, USNRC spokesman"


Guess where that saying came from????? Sure differnet reactors... but still reactors... The cause a faulty valve with over 500 employes exposed

As for the earth quake.. thats just not funny.. here is the effects from one in NY... Five plants were closed down there just two weeks ago over fears of the effects of earthquakes on cooling towers.