New VY well tests positive for tritium

New VY well tests positive for tritium

By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer Staff   

Everyone knows I put the bug in state radiological officer Irwin ear that the discharge piping from the AOG building to the stack was leaking before the test results came in...at least the first outsider to know...indeed I knew there was a leak in this AOG piping before the wells were even dug.

So like what is the potential radiation and tritium levels in this piping during normal operation?

Where does the plant ventilation from the reactor and turbine building snake through the property to the stack...there is high suspicion this is highly contaminated. Remember there is or was suspicion the turbine building ventilation fan floor drains could be the cause of this leak.

Remember it been reported the stack stump has extremely high contamination levels in it. So where did this come from, and why wasn't it cleaned up. You got to know the rain comes in through stack piping hole at the top of the structure, drains down to the to the sump at the bottom. Does it drag the tritium down with it?

How does the standby gas treatment system go out to the stack, does it tap into ventilation piping? It is a hypa filter and carbon filter....but how does the discharge get to the stack. It doesn't filter tritium.

How does the torus bypass piping get to the stack....is there a assurance it is operable? If is uses other piping system that are 40 years old.

...If I had some time to screw around, I'd be wondering the actual efficiency of tritium reduction in the AOG stream...like is the reduction of tritium the amount it was designed for right now.


You could take a inlet sample to the AOG building and then a outlet sample....how much does it reduce tritium?