{"id":702068,"date":"2010-03-26T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:58:41","slug":"leak-at-vermont-yankee-stopped-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/702068","title":{"rendered":"Leak at Vermont Yankee stopped, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20100325\/NEWS02\/100325010\/Vermont-Yankee-nuclear-plant-says-radioactive-tritium-leak-plugged\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.burlingtonfreepress.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=BT&amp;Date=20100325&amp;Category=NEWS02&amp;ArtNo=100325010&amp;Ref=AR&amp;MaxW=318&amp;Border=0&amp;q=90\" width=\"229\" align=\"right\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/25\/8\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: A leak of radioactive tritium at the Vermont Yankee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Nuclear_Power_Plant_Security_and_Vulnerabilities\">nuclear plant<\/a> has  been stopped, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Groundwater\">groundwater<\/a> cleanup will start today, officials said  today.<\/p>\n<p>The radioactive leak at the 38-year-old plant near Vernon was  reported Jan. 7. A clogged drain caused tritium-laced water to seep into  soil and groundwater. However, officials say no detectable levels of  tritium have been found in the Connecticut River or in nearby drinking  water wells.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is scheduled to close in 2012. In February, the Vermont  Senate voted against recommending a 20-year extension of the plant&#8217;s  operating license (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20100325\/NEWS02\/100325010\/Vermont-Yankee-nuclear-plant-says-radioactive-tritium-leak-plugged\" >AP\/<em>Burlington  Free Press<\/em><\/a>, March 25). <strong>&#8211; AC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3237&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3237\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: A leak of radioactive tritium at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has been stopped, and groundwater cleanup will start today, officials said today. The radioactive leak at the 38-year-old plant near Vernon was reported Jan. 7. A clogged drain caused tritium-laced water to seep into soil and groundwater. However, officials say no detectable levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WDG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}