At the end of the day, it’s all about choices….“I think that having people better educated is better for modern society. And hopefully they could use some of that knowledge to make better choices,” Terry said.
A new report from a group called the Illinois Public Interest Research Group has drawn attention to the choice that Illinois, and 30 other states, has made about nuclear energy. The report, titled “Too Close to Home,” cites numerous articles that followed the unfolding disaster at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant and concerns in the U.S., including a series of Associated Press stories dating from summer of 2010. According to the report, over 10 million Americans in Great Lakes states, excluding Indiana and Minnesota, receive drinking water originating within 12 miles of a nuclear power plant. The AP stories cited focused on radioactive isotopes that could leak into drinking water. Great Lakes residents might zero in on that section of the report, where warning flags are thrown up about the possibility of a radioactive form of hydrogen, known as tritium, leaking into groundwater from nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversees the safety operations for all of the nuclear power plants in the U.S. There are two inspectors at each plant. However, “tritium leaks have occurred with great regularity at U.S. nuclear plants,” according to the report. It goes on to cite the AP stories, which claim that tritium leaks “have occurred at 75 percent of U.S. plants, and that a great number of them have taken place in the past five years.”
A new report from a group called the Illinois Public Interest Research Group has drawn attention to the choice that Illinois, and 30 other states, has made about nuclear energy. The report, titled “Too Close to Home,” cites numerous articles that followed the unfolding disaster at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant and concerns in the U.S., including a series of Associated Press stories dating from summer of 2010. According to the report, over 10 million Americans in Great Lakes states, excluding Indiana and Minnesota, receive drinking water originating within 12 miles of a nuclear power plant. The AP stories cited focused on radioactive isotopes that could leak into drinking water. Great Lakes residents might zero in on that section of the report, where warning flags are thrown up about the possibility of a radioactive form of hydrogen, known as tritium, leaking into groundwater from nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversees the safety operations for all of the nuclear power plants in the U.S. There are two inspectors at each plant. However, “tritium leaks have occurred with great regularity at U.S. nuclear plants,” according to the report. It goes on to cite the AP stories, which claim that tritium leaks “have occurred at 75 percent of U.S. plants, and that a great number of them have taken place in the past five years.”
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