Radioactive fish near Vt. nuke plant deemed common

AP ^ | May 31, 2010 | DAVE GRAM

[DogByte6RER]

Hmmm...

I wonder if these fish have that fishy mackeral taste or if they taste something like a swordfish?

[Paladin2]

Dang, I wuz going to point out that the fish are safe to eat unless they have three eyes. Pic’s already there.

[DogByte6RER]

In this May 29, 2010 photo, Charles Parker remove a small fish from his line while fishing in the Connecticut River across from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. When a fish taken from the Connecticut River recently tested positive for radioactive strontium-90, suspicion focused on the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as the likely source. Operators of the troubled 38-year-old nuclear plant on the banks of the river, where work is under way to clean up leaking radioactive tritium, revealed this month that it also found soil contaminated with strontium-90, an isotope linked to bone cancer and leukemia. (AP Photo/Jason R. Henske)

[aumrl]

If it’s a plant,
would it be a ‘red herring’?

[Dallas59]

Obligatory...

[denydenydeny]

Other radioactive isotopes have been found as well, including cesium-137

Cesium 137 = Chernobyl.

[cripplecreek]

Here comes the moratorium un nuclear power.

[Doc Savage]

This is what they served to the Mexican President, Calderone!!!!!!!!LOL!

[CincyRichieRich]

Bullcrap.

Uranium is mined and is a naturally occurring element. Also, Rock of Ages granite mine can certainly open up fissures for U-238. Nothing like MSM-based emotion-based logic.

[DBrow]

Strontium 90 has a half-life of about 30 years, so if you can see it, it was made within the last 300 years (it takes about 10 half-lives for an isotope to become very, very hard to detect). if you detect Sr90 it is not natural, it had to have been made by us, somewhen. Same with Cs137, it’s not natural. Most likely source is Chernobyl.

Modern gear can detect a few atoms of a radioactive substance.

[CincyRichieRich]

Strontium 90 has a half-life of about 30 years, so if you can see it, it was made within the last 300 years (it takes about 10 half-lives for an isotope to become very, very hard to detect). if you detect Sr90 it is not natural, it had to have been made by us, somewhen. Same with Cs137, it’s not natural. Most likely source is Chernobyl.

Modern gear can detect a few atoms of a radioactive substance.

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You’re right, we should trust the governmental scientists who feed the MSM their conclusions. They don’t have any self-interest or benefit in an intended outcome, and, there’s plenty independent, 3rd parties who give us reports and double-blind proofs, etc. Sarc off. Please let’s all worship the EPA while we’re at it.

[DBrow]

You are suggesting a different half life for Sr90?

[DBrow]

It is true that EPA will lower their “standards” for a chemical if the analytical gear improves and you can “see” lower quantities.

The article says “100 times some limit” for H3, but I did not see where they mentioned Sr levels at all, just that they detected it.

[CincyRichieRich]

No, I’m suggesting don’t believe what you read when it is from MSM.

[DBrow]

I’m with you!

[VanShuyten]

How do you get tritium out of the fission of uranium?

[DBrow]

From lots of neutrons hitting water. Regular water yields some, heavy water (like the CANDU units) generate more.

It is a very rare fission product coming directly from U fission, but the quantity is negligible.

I think the US used to make it by bombarding lithium in reactors, we don’t any more.

[razorback-bert]

A fresher dose was released by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Good, I like fresh doses in my fish.

[VanShuyten]

What do you think about the “100x normal” claim? Is it believable that a leak in the cooling jacket would release that much tritium that there would be a 100x level in the wells? Maybe that might come from natural sources. Granite is famous for having trapped radioactives. I would think that any tritium produced in the cooling water would quickly go downstream.

[UCANSEE2]

How do you get tritium out of the fission of uranium?

Apparently, by going fission in the Connecticut River.