{"id":381297,"date":"2010-03-02T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T13:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2010-03-02T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T13:18:47","slug":"technicians-close-in-on-radioactive-leak-at-vermont-yankee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381297","title":{"rendered":"Technicians close in on radioactive leak at Vermont Yankee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/27\/us\/27nuke.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/02\/27\/us\/27nuke01\/27nuke01-articleInline.jpg\" width=\"212\" align=\"right\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/01\/13\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Technicians and scientists may have found the source of a tritium leak at the Vermont Yankee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Nuclear_Power_Plant_Security_and_Vulnerabilities\">nuclear power plant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their recent efforts to find the source of the radioactive leak, which has sparked a national conversation on the safety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Nuclear_Energy_and_the_Fossil_Fuels_%28historical%29\">nuclear energy<\/a>, did not wrap up in time to head off the Vermont Senate vote last Wednesday that may have sealed the fate of the plant after 2012. The state voted 26-4 to close the 38-year-old plant in 2012, but finding and fixing the leak could be the first step Louisiana-based Entergy could take to persuade lawmakers to reverse their decision and allow the plant to seek another permit to continue to operate past 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Based on tritium levels logged at several monitoring wells, workers think they may have triangulated the source of the leak around a 2-inch steel pipe encased in a plastic pipe that is itself surrounded by concrete. The dig is slow going, even though workers are digging around the clock &#8212; complicated by snow; nearby pipes carrying essential materials, including fuel for the reactor&#8217;s emergency diesel generators; and the fact that the workers have to be wary of a cave-in (Matthew L. Wald, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/27\/us\/27nuke.html\" ><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 26). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3165&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3165\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Technicians and scientists may have found the source of a tritium leak at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Their recent efforts to find the source of the radioactive leak, which has sparked a national conversation on the safety of nuclear energy, did not wrap up in time to head off the Vermont Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}