Minnesota regulators revealed for the first time on Thursday that they have been monitoring the cleanup from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear plant.
At least 400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from a Minnesota nuclear power plant in November — but officials only publicly revealed the spill on Thursday.
The four-month delay in announcing the leak to the public sparked an alarm over public safety and transparency. However, industry experts on Friday said there was never a public health threat as the radioactive water never reached a threshold that would have required public notification. The chemical only poses a health risk to people who consumed a large amount of tritium, according to Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists. The risk is contained if the plume stays on the company’s site, which Xcel Energy and Minnesota officials said is the case.
Mitlyng said nuclear plants are not required to report all tritium leaks to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, however Xcel had agreed to report certain leaks to the state, who, in turn, shares it with the commission.
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