Minnesota regulators said Thursday they're monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant, and the company said there's no danger to the public. The leak was first detected in November of last year.
"If at any point there had been concern for the public safety, we would of course, immediately have provided more information," Chris Clark, president of Xcel Energy-Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, told "The groundwater beneath the facility, it's been determined that it moves in the direction of the Mississippi River, slowly, but that's the direction that it flows, or moves, underground," Doug Wetzstein an industrial division director with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, told CBS Minnesota.
Xcel said it has recovered about 25% of the spilled tritium so far, that recovery efforts will continue and that it will install a permanent solution this spring. When asked why Xcel Energy didn't notify the public earlier, the company said:"We understand the importance of quickly informing the communities we serve if a situation poses an immediate threat to health and safety. In this case, there was no such threat." The company said it focused on investigating the situation, containing the affected water and figuring out next steps.
Damn lie, this shit happened back in November yet we hear about it now. Liars! The lot of you!
I wonder if this happened in China, how the media will react? 'it's fine, no threaten to the public health,' and bunch of ppl comments under every post 'it's fine, its easy to dilute, you can drink it heavily'. What do you reckon?
Y’all fucking lying
It's very safe, don't worry. 😐
Xcel. Hmmmm. I think they have a shitty past record.
If there's no danger, why clean it up? Why even contain it? Just let it flow into the Mississippi to begin with.
They should make everyone from that company drink it every day to show that it's safe!
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🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ better keep pushing for more info, testing and way more attention to this at a federal level!
The nuclear industry ALWAYS says “no danger to the general public,” even when there is. Mainstream media like ALWAYS just repeats that assertion without checking. Good journalism would have meant checking with nirsnet or PSRenvironment. This is why we can’t trust you.
没有危险可还行， no danger sweet air usa!!!
Every nuclear power plant has a fool proof safety, security and safeguard attend in place with highly qualified and professional personnel locally and from the IAEA monitoring the plant.
Of course they did. Why did they wait 4 months to tell anyone
The great liberal state of Minnesota didn't tell there citizens that the power plant was leaking.....that is unforgivable.
No, of course not !!! Three-Mile Island in 1978, in Harrisburg, Pa., had LONG-TERM repercussions!
Hello Minnesota friends, you can calculate a hypothetical exposure using this calculator here: As you can see, the tritium released, even if you drank directly from the source, is not high enough to cause an increased risk of cancer.
I wonder if the Whitehouse administration ever got around to filling the position of deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of ☢Nuclear ENERGY 🛫+💺+🛬=🛅💼🧳🛄 ↪
fukumeltdowns Isn't it interesting that there's NEVER any danger to the public? Iodine 131? Tritium can't be removed from water. It IS water.
WhoDat35 And reporters decided that claim was accurate? 🤦♀️
Attention please! This happened in NOVEMBER’22, they are just now reporting!! It must have been originally reported as fake news 🤦🏻♀️
SaFe aNd EffEcTive!
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Sure there isn't any danger to the public!!! That's why they waited FOUR MONTHS to let the public know!!! And now it's 'being monitored '!!! This country is going to hell in a hand basket!!!
It seems to me that will get to the water table. I'm not an expert
Here's the statement from the MN regulatory agency. Note that the wells they refer to are within the plant site. Remediation efforts are not actually necessary to protect public health. It's more of an attempt to gain public trust and approval.
How radioactive is the water? This matters more than the volume of water.
Not safe
Xcel reports the leak in November to state and federal regulators, and it took 4 months to inform the public? Why? XcelEnergyMN mnhealth NRCgov
Sorry, but this is clickbait. What you won't see in the article? Context. Drinking an (8 oz.) cup directly from the source of this leak is roughly equal to eating 8 bananas, radiation-wise. (All bananas have radioactive potassium in them.) Calcs here:
. The company said there's no danger to the public. . That's what Norfolk Southern said when a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio .
What can possibly go wrong go wrong go wrong go wrong go wrong?
“400,000 gallons of radioactive ☢️ water” and “no danger ⚠️ to the public” seem to be an oxymoron 🤨🧐😏
Yeah Right!!!!
Riiight
Where have I heard that before? 🤢
A leak ? Report some facts here. The Damn media are manipulators working for the devil
NO DANGER MY ASS
I call BS
There’s a lot of biohazards being dumped on Americas heartland. Alt-left crazies don’t care?
BugJudy Of course there’s no danger 🤯. It’s just radio active waste.
That is as safe as putting a baby in the microwave. 🤣☠️🫢🤫
Oh that’s a relief
If the company said there is no danger to the public, why is there a clean up going on? Journalism at its finest.
Minnesota regulators are monitoring? Where the hell are the Feds!!!? Where the hell is Jennifer Granholm the U.S. Secretary of Energy?!!!
NO DANGER TO THE PUBLIC!!
Lovely
Yes radioactive waste is perfectly safe
The company is lying. No surprise.
'No danger to the public'. Ok