The operator of the nuclear power plant has sued, saying the state wrongly blocked its plan to discharge the water into the Hudson River.
  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    7 months ago

    Is it actually radioactive water, or is it just water a nuclear power plant used for some purpose and now people think it’s radioactive?

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      31·
      7 months ago

      Apparently its 1.3 million gallons of water, which includes tritiated water, so yeah this is more fallout from anit-nuke propaganda…

    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Whatever it is it’s perfectly good water for a nuclear power plant and we need a replacement for Indian Point anyway. Sending it down the Hudson is just a waste.

    • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world
      22·
      7 months ago

      I have a sneaking suspicion this is another situation where the tritiated water is actually a lower concentration than the river, but because we know about the phenomenally low levels, people are afraid of the nuclear boogeyman. In reality, I’ll bet that the overall tritium concentration in the river would go down as a result of discharging those 1.3 million gallons of water into it.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
        21·
        7 months ago

        They dumped into the Hudson for years during operation, leaving it onsite to leak undiluted into ground water is a far far worse Idea.