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• Did you hear about the fly ash leaks?

  A year or so ago, there was a huge uproar about tritium that was found in groundwater on the plant site at Braidwood, one of Exelon's nuclear facilities. The plant operator determined that the source of tritium was from a a leaking discharge pipe that normally carries non radioactive circulating water back to the Kankakee River. That same discharge pipe is also used for small, planned, allowed... Posted Oct 03 2007, 04:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: tritium, Exelon