Leaking nuclear power plants?

At least 27 of America's 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking radioactive tritium, which is linked to cancer if inhaled or ingested through the throat or skin. The controversy has been most pronounced at the Vermont Yankee power plant, where a flood of cover-ups has infuriated and terrified near neighbors who say the reactor was never meant to operate more than 30 years and must now shutdown.

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• harvey wasserman
• priya sridhar
• vermont
• georgia
• yankee
• greenpeace
• nuclear power plant
• radioactive leaking
• cancer
• rt
• russia today

[godanlove]

WHO KNOWS THAT THIS STORY IS BULLSHIT..

[trapskeetfly]

more people will get cancer by that area. Southern company/US will hide just like another country like catastrophe happens. Everything is money

[atvrider312]

I hope these dumbasses realize that they have the wrong Georgia, the plants are being built in waynesburo Georgia USA not the country, epic fail

[musicmotor1]

@chuckeieio Choke on 50Sv.

[HalcyonicRepose]

@coalandnuclear

Since you didn't read my reply why bother replying to it?

Only 40 tons of nuclear waste every 2 1/2 years at one big plant, how much is produced in all of America annually? The world? Hopefully we can put America's waste in Yucca Mountain, but if not, what then??

It is robbing Peter (future generations having to deal with this horrible toxic legacy) to pay Paul (supposedly "cheap" & "clean" energy today, it is neither), end of story!

[HalcyonicRepose]

If America developed a distributed power generation system, solar/wind stored with efficient electrolysis, converted back from Hydrogen with fuel cells, to do otherwise is to condemn future generations to dealing with these nightmares.

PLEASE tell me what happens if things go south in the next 1,000 years and no one is maintaining these plants? Really, it's very selfish, such EXTREME greed/myopia, because nuclear waste is the gift that keeps on giving!

[PunkBoy755]

wait, which Georgia is this talking about? the headline picture shows the country?

I have no problem with the nuclear program, but if we are giving $8billion to another countries energy program using tax money then I do have a problem with it...

[coalandnuclear]

@HalcyonicRepose like i said if you really believe it glows that shows how much you really know, and what do you want, green energy, what is that? wind, solar, hydro? all those sources have massive downfalls too. also something to keep in mind, the biggest npp in usa makes 4000mw, and it only produces about 40 tons of waste everytime they switch rods, which is about every 2 to 2and a half years. so put that in your pipe and smoke that hippie.

[HalcyonicRepose]

@coalandnuclear

Really, that's the best you've got?

It doesn't "glow" and there are no clicking (Geiger counter) sounds for that matter!

A little literary license has got your panties in a bunch?

The nuclear industry is condemning future generations to storehouse their nuclear shit (Think: Medusa's outhouse) so they can reap the profits now. How much DOES it cost to store that dangerous waste for centuries and centuries, and why does the nuclear industry SPIN their processes as being "GREEN"?

[coalandnuclear]

@78923451 if you really believe what you say your retarded, for one 1000mw nuclear reactor will use 90,000 gallons in about an hour.