This updated story:Provides a little more detail on what happened. Still have refernce to the drinking water limits and a quote from Linda Keen but, in a key addition, they state that the tritium released was only 0.1% of the monthly limit. So, obviously for such a big spill the tritium concentration wasn't that much...People are still going to be scared out of their minds though...
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Whitlock, Jeremy <whitlockj@aecl.ca> wrote:
It's too bad that the Star links this story to the debate on the drinking water limit, which is thousands of times higher than what's being measured here, and thousands of times less than what might remotely be considered dangerous.
It's also too bad that Canada's most famous non-expert, Linda Keen, continues to be given a soapbox.
For more on the dangers of tritium emissions, see www.nuclearfaq.ca/cnf_sectionD.htm#tritium.
Jeremy Whitlock
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My response to this is pretty obvious.I'm not mad... just very, very disappointed...http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/741975--leak-from-darlington-station-poses-no-danger-opg?bn=1
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