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Lawsuit: Exelon didn't report radiation leak
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/031706/REG_B993S04K.050.shtml
Friday, March 17, 2006
CHICAGO (AP) - A lawsuit filed Thursday in Will County Circuit Court
accuses
Exelon Corp. of failing to properly maintain an underground pipeline where
radioactive tritium has leaked several times dating back to 1996.
Many residents of two small communities near the Braidwood Nuclear
Generating Station are fearful of what effect the leaks might be having on
their health, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said during a
news
conference in Chicago.
"There are pregnant mothers that are scared to death," he said.
The lawsuit, filed by Glasgow and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan,
names Exelon and subsidiaries ComEd and Exelon Generation Co. as
defendants.
It alleges the leaks violated state environmental laws and that ComEd
improperly failed to report the leaks to the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency.
Craig Nesbit, a spokesman for Exelon's nuclear operations, said the
company's attorneys were reviewing the lawsuit. Although he would not
comment on the lawsuit directly, he said the leaks posed no danger to the
communities about 60 miles southwest of Chicago.
"There is not now - nor has there ever been - a health and safety threat
from this," Nesbit said.
Plant officials were not legally required to report some of the leaks, he
added.
Glasgow said plant officials have not cooperated with his investigation.
The lawsuit asks the court to impose a fine of $50,000 per violation and
an
additional penalty of $10,000 for each day of the violation, which could
generate tens of millions of dollars to clean the areas.
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How dense can you get? Since tritium is a gas if there is a leak, poof.
it
is gone.
It does not stay around to be cleaned up.
You failed science didn't you...
You failed life!
See the definition below
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun 1. tritium - a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium
have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms
atomic number 1, H, hydrogen - a nonmetallic univalent element that is
normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the
simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
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