Exelon wants info on Oyster Creek tritium leak withheld; Lawmakers demand to know cause

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http://www.app.com/article/20090729/NEWS/907290354/1070/NEWS02/Exelon+wants+info+on+Oyster+Creek+tritium+leak+withheld

Exelon wants info on Oyster Creek tritium leak withheld
Lawmakers demand to know cause

By BOB VOSSELLER • MANAHAWKIN BUREAU • July 29, 2009

LACEY — The owners of Oyster Creek Generating Station have asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the full analysis regarding the cause of a recent tritium leak at the plant not be made public.

Earlier this month, state Sen. Christopher J. Connors and Assemblymen Brian E. Rumpf and Daniel M. Van Pelt, all R-Ocean, called for the immediate release of the root-cause analysis of the leak that occurred in April at the plant in the Forked River section of the township.

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Sheehan explained why Exelon asked that the full report be withheld from the public. "It makes several arguments, including the proprietary nature of information in the document and its concern that the disclosure of the contents will restrain company personnel from being as "frank, candid and self-critical' in the future.

"We have not yet ruled on the request, pending the submittal of additional information from Exelon," Sheehan said. "We have asked the company to provide us with a nonproprietary version of the root-cause analysis that could be available for public dissemination."

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Sounds like they're trying to intimidate any whistle-blowers.
You can't trust the nuclear industry.

[NNadir]

1. Well, given that the public is as stupid and filled with fundies who are scientifically

illiterate, the kind who don't know what the concentration of tritium has been doing since 1963, I suggest we shut the plant entirely and replace it with dangerous fossil fuels that actually kill people.

This may come as a surprise to the little shits who don't understand the consequences of elevating their scientific illiteracy to the level of say, destroying access to medical isotopes, but the atmospheric levels of tritium have been falling dramatically since 1963, around the time that massive buidling of nuclear power plants began.

Of course, there will not be ONE bourgeois brat in the anti-nuke cults who will give a fuck about the lung tissue of people who will be killed by shutting Oyster Creek.

Why, because the anti-nuke, anti-science cults are arbitrary, morally indifferent and live entirely, like their hero Cheney, on fear mongering, innuendo, misinformation, distortion and delusionary associations.

There are ZERO fundie anti-nukes who have ever read a single scientific paper on environmental tritium levels in their ignorant little lives.

http://www.hydroqual.com/publications/rdm_07_01_p.pdf

Note that the scale in figure 2, from a paper (conveniently available on the internet) among hundreds and hundreds of papers (if not thousands of papers) is logarithmic - not that this will mean anything to a fundie anti-nuke, since you can't be a fundie anti-nuke if you understand mathematics.

This is why the antidote to abject ignorance is not knowledge. A fundie is a person whose ideology is immune to any amount of information.

The fact is that the continuous attempt to shut Oyster Creek are attempts to kill people with dangerous fossil fuel waste. Nuclear power need not be perfect to be better than all the shit that fundie anti-nukes don't care about. It merely needs to be better than the crap they don't care about, and, in fact, it is.

[bananas]

2. More proof that nuclear weapons are an environmental issue

Figures 1 and 2 in your link show how rapidly fallout accumulated in the environment from nuclear weapons tests.
The tritium levels in the 1990's are still an order of magnitude higher than the levels before 1948.
The 1963 Partial Test Ban was not to be "nice" or "anti-war", it was because even the warhawks engaged in Mutual Assured Destruction and Overkill realized that weapons testing was a severe environmental problem.
Figures 1 and 2 in your link can be compared with these two charts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing

[bananas]

3. Your little diversion has nothing to do with the OP: Exelon is hiding something

and they are hiding it from pro-nuke Republican legislators - it must be really bad!

[madokie]

4. Sure they are hiding something

I don't know of a time when the nuclear power industry could every be trusted to tell the truth. No matter what the big guy says its all pure dee ole bulllllshit and I mean
bullhockey