Saturday, February 05, 2011

A Brewing Scandal

Updated Fed 07/2011
I like to know why the NRC didn't establish the LLD (670 to 700 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) in this inspection report (05000271/2010006)...
I like to know all the testing results from GZ-3, from 2007 to Jan 7 2010 or so....and what was the time in the counter...could that expect to detect the LLD in the liquid scintillation detector.
The basic question, is this an accurate sentence: "ENVY noted that this was the first positive indication of tritium"?


Entergy RCA back in June 16, 2010: "On January 6, 2010 Vermont Yankee was notified by TBE-ESL that a November 2009 sample from GZ-3 had a measured tritium concentration of 705 pCi/L."
New state report Feb/07
Vermont Yankee’s lower limit of detection (LLD) for tritium is in the range of 670 to 700 picocuries per liter (pCi/L).
...705 picocuries per liter should have put Entergy on the leak warpath back in Nov 2009.
Did the NRC define for us LLD?

New VY well tests positive for tritium
Yankee technicians are using techniques to lower their lowest limit for detection for many well samples, allowing them to detect tritium at lower levels than previously."
Think of it as if you are a Entergy employee. Entergy is allowed to game these numbers to the NRC and state to their advantage when all of the region public is watching VY, these governmental official never question this practice of gaming, an employee knows this is uncontested power that Entergy got. What chance does he have with truth telling when the company has this much power. They tell all their buddy friends in the company, Entergy has almost untested power, you better not ever cross them.

Complaint: Jan 28, 2011
" There is a scandal brewing questioning if everyone including Vermont, Entergy and the NRC has been gaming LLD...lower-than-detectible level of tritium. In other words, the tritium radioactive detector or counter has the ability to detect tritium lower than their declared lower limit...LLD. They mostly declared they can only go down to 500, 1000 or even 2000 picocuries per liter as the lower limit...but I have been told by the Vermont state radiological officer they can go down quite a bet lower than 50 picocuries of plant produced tritium. This is extremely low levels...but it is positive indication of radioactive leakage. The question becomes, how extensively is the area contaminated and why the gaming lies by everyone."

It seems the LLD  is around 600 to 700 picocuries per liter...they should tell how long the detector is counting. The LLD is dependant on how long it is counted.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You sir are fear monger who blogs incorrect information about Entergy ad Vermont Yankee.