UNDT IS NEEDED!!! February 24, 2012 - Richmond Progressive Examiner - Tritium leak at North Anna gives another example of why nuclear energy's wrong - As if more ammunition were needed to shoot holes through the idea of increasing Virginia’s reliance on nuclear energy, Dominion VA Power reported on Tuesday that the source of a radioactive leak at its North Anna nuclear power plant was being sought after an increased level of tritium was detected in groundwater. Rick Zuercher, company spokesman for Dominion, stated that the two reactors situated at North Anna were not the source of the leak. Dominion is also reported to have told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the contaminated water is not leaking off-site and that there is no evidence that the 5.8 magnitude earthquake is related to the leak. I don’t know whether this is supposed to be reassuring or not. Not surprisingly, the U.S. nuclear power watchdog and advocate, the NRC, said that the rastatements.diation isn’t a hazard to the public. But the NRC has painted such a black cloud over its head, I’m not sure when to believe their
February 29, 2012 - PanArmenian.net - Japanese parents alarmed over radiation in food, drinks - A Japanese mother recently reported in her blog that she paid for tests that showed low levels of radioactive caesium in milk served with school lunches, M&C reported citing DPA. "This is the truth," she said in her blog. "Children drink [milk] with contamination levels like this." Mariko lives in Kawaguchi near Tokyo, 220 kilometres south-west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which released radioactive substances into the environment a year ago during the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. She said the government and milk producer had no intention of conducting tests to detect lower-level radioactive contamination on food and beverages served in schools so she did it herself. The levels found from her tests, conducted this month, were below the official limit, but many parents like Mariko fear what effects the radioactive fallout from the accident is having on their children