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Tritium

The Human Costs of Nuclear Power

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Nuclear Reactor, Brookhaven National Laboratory, High Flux Beam Reactor, Tritium, Hfbr, Green News
Alec Baldwin

Utility reactors all over the country pose grave dangers for those living nearby. There are no safe levels of exposure to the byproducts created by the generation of reactors currently in use.

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Vermont's Radioactive Nightmare

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Vermont Yankee, Tritium, Nuclear Power Plants, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Vermont Yankee is just the latest of more than two dozen U.S. nuclear plants to be found with leaking tritium. A flood of cover-ups has terrified neighbors who say the reactor was never meant to operate more than 30 years.

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Nuclear Power Worker Puts Poison Radioactive Isotope In Water-Cooler

Times Online | Rhys Blakely in Mumbai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: India Nuclear Worker, Radioactive Water Cooler, India Nuclear Power Worker, Radioactive Water, Tritium, Nuclear Power Worker, Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear Worker Water Cooler, Technology News

India's atomic power agency is investigating after a disgruntled nuclear power plant worker added a radioactive isotope to a workplace water-cooler. ...

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