Fears are rising as steadily as the Missouri River is flooding areas of nuclear power plants these days as new studies and reports about America's nuclear facilities prove harm their radiation is causing people and about unresolved safety hazards under which the plants operate. Water tests from around 37 of the 104 United States nuclear facilities contained radioactive concentrations exceeding U.S. drinking water standard according to the Associated Press new study report. Sometimes, radiation in the drinking water was hundreds of times over limit.
Dangerous radiation has leaked from three-quarters of all U.S. nuclear power stations yet people have not been warned about this in most cases. The country's water supplies not already contaminated could be one day in the not too distant future if the situation is not turned around.
The number and severity of radiation leaks has increased because there many old and unsafe plants across America, a the new Associated Press investigation claims.
The investigators found that radioactive tritium has escaped in at least 48 of 65 of all U.S. sites, often entering water around the plants through rusty old pipes.
"No worries. The GOP/Obusha will simply lower the drinking water standards - problem solved," reported Citizens for Legitimate Government's Lori Price today, referring to the bad habit government has of lowering standards to meet industry violations rather than holding industry accountable and investing in renewable energy. The U.S. is losing the green energy race due to policy.
Contaminated water from nuclear facilities was only one among numerous revelations that the Associated Press investigation has provided in its report released this week.
"Radioactive tritium has escaped at least 48 of 65 of all U.S. sites, often entering water around the plants through rusty old pipes," reported the Mail Online yesterday in its summary of the year-long AP report that has rocked human and environmental rights defenders this week.
AP reported Monday, "The AP found proof that aging reactors have been allowed to run less safely to prolong operations. As equipment has approached or violated safety limits, regulators and reactor operators have loosened or bent the rules."
"Failed cables. Busted seals. Broken nozzles, clogged screens, cracked concrete, dented containers, corroded metals and rusty underground pipes — all of these and thousands of other problems linked to aging were uncovered in the AP's investigation."
"And all of them could escalate dangers in the event of an accident," AP stated, the very reason eyes of America's critical thinkers are on Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in Nebraska now that it is flooded coupled with several less than satisfactory safety reports including in recent weeks.
Fort Calhoun and a second Nebraska power plants are on alert this week and President Obama has declared emergencies in Nebraska's counties where the two nuclear stations are both experiencing "unusual events." Red Cross has called an emergency in Fort Calhoun but had to close its emergency shelter there Monday.
Fort Calhoun's nuclear power plant is one of three reactors across the country that federal regulators said they are most concerned about according to KETV News.
Recent reports evidence Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station has continued to have safety problems.
IBTimes reported yesterday that "Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant was reportedly very close to getting engulfed by the floodwaters, raising fears of a crisis similar to Japan’s Fukushima disaster."
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