Canada nuclear plant accident turns drinking water radioactive

This happened 14th March 2011. Ontario Power Generation has notified Canada's federal nuclear regulator about the release of 73,000 litres of demineralized water into Lake Ontario at the Pickering A nuclear generating station.

The leak occurred at 11:30 p.m. ET on Monday at the plant located about 35 kilometres east of Toronto and was caused by a pump seal failure.

"The radiological risk to the environment and people's health is negligible," the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said in a statement.

The nuclear regulator and Environment Canada are monitoring the situation, the statement said.

Andrew Nichols of CBC News reported about the leak on Wednesday afternoon and said he spoke to an Ontario Power Generation spokesperson who told him the risk is minimal but that such leaks are not supposed to occur.

Nichols also spoke to Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition of Nuclear Responsibility.

"In his words, 'What the hell is considered negligible?'" Nichols reported. "[Edwards] is concerned that it's the nuclear industry that is telling you and I and telling the public what is considered to be negligible but he's concerned that we don't have a proper sense of what negligible is," reported Nichols.

Nichols also reported that the leak could be a concern because Lake Ontario is the main source of drinking water for millions of people who live along the lake.

The leak comes as the world is watching Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis, as multiple reactors face cooling system failures and possible meltdowns in the wake of Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
Pickering A is the first of four reactors at the nuclear plant just east of Toronto. It went into service in 1971 and continued to operate safely until 1997, when it was placed in voluntary lay-up as part of what was then Ontario Hydro's nuclear improvement program.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/16/pickering-nuclear-leak.html

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[DuncanL7979]

@fukkuutube I'm Canadian...I can't get mad...my brain is too numb from fluoride.

[NickSr1000]

DON'T WORRY, THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WOULD NEVER LIE TO YOU, THEY WILL ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY'S SAFETY! WE WOULD NEVER PUT YOU IN HARMS WAY JUST LIKE WE DIDN'T THE NATIVES OF CANADA... YOU CAN TRUST CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!!! TO BE OPEN, SINCERE AND TRANSPARENT ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN YOUR COUNTRY WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS!

YOURS TRULY,

PRESIDENT, STEPHEN HARPER

[greenb1a]

73,000 litres of demineralized water is no harm? Why don't they share this water and consume it themselves? Someone should be charged for this.

[madryboy]

.56 ABOVE?????

[Shartl9]

Some EAS has issued a Nuclear Power Plant Warning at that time.

[blindedby2monkeys]

hopefully canadians will mutate into humans

[AlexGraphicD1]

@NickSr1000 You are the man

[realisrealizerealies]

Strange how both the Grand Gulf & Pickering Nuclear Plant Spokesmen, report that Radioactivity was "RELEASED" into the water. This tells me that was intentional! This was no accident or else they would have said accident or spill, anything but RELEASED! WAKE-UP PEOPLE you are being screwed and you don't even know it!!! I still drink this water cause i cannot afford bottled water, just so that they can throw the plastic bottle back into the Ocean!!!!

[realisrealizerealies]

@looneybinbri Spoksman Don Perry NEVER said it was an "ACCIDENT"!!! Listen @ 0:55!!!! " was Released"! This is all part of a much larger Agenda to Depopulate the Earth, OK!

[jazzflutist]

Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. Since tritium is a low energy beta emitter, it is not dangerous externally (its beta particles are unable to penetrate the skin), but it is a radiation hazard when inhaled, ingested via food or water, or absorbed through the skin.[14][15][16][17] HTO has a short biological half life in the human body of seven to 14 days, which both reduces the total effects of single-incident ingestion and precludes long-term bioaccumulation of HTO from the environment.

[alleygh0st]

Tools

[looneybinbri]

"accident",easy mistake to make never mind cup of tea anyone?