{"id":18626,"date":"2016-03-08T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18626"},"modified":"2016-03-08T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:33:17","slug":"indian-point-fukushimas-mini-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18626","title":{"rendered":"Indian Point: Fukushima\u2019s Mini-Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/03\/08\/fukushimas-mini-me\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Indian Point: Fukushima\u2019s Mini-Me<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80460\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/03\/shutterstock_286493465-2.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_286493465 (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant New York continually leaks radioactivity into the Hudson River. This has been going on for years. Seriously!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, New York\u2019s Governor Andrew Cuomo agrees with advocacy groups such as Riverkeeper, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and The Sierra Club to close Indian Point. Why? Environmentalists claim the radioactive leaks are \u201cjust the tip of the iceberg,\u201d Amy Kraft, Indian Point Nuclear Plant Called \u2018Disaster Waiting to Happen, CBS News, Feb. 26, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS News, water at one of the monitoring wells for Indian Point showed a 65,000% increase in tritium, which, according to nuclear industry specialists, is the kind of radiation that passes through the body very quickly via urination. That\u2019s a relief!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, \u201c\u2026 little research has been done on the health effects of exposure to increased levels of tritium. But the NRC states: \u2018Exposure to very small amounts of ionizing radiation is thought to minimally increase the risk of developing cancer, and the risk increases as exposure increases,\u201d Ibid.<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, \u201cthe risk increases as exposure increases,\u201d doesn\u2019t sound too good. After all, +65,000% likely hits the marker within the category of \u201crisk increases as exposure increases.\u201d When is too much, too much?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, Jerry Nappi, a representative for Entergy Corporation, said that the most recent issue at Indian Point would not have any impact on human health or life in the river. \u2018Concentrations would be undetectable in the river,\u2019 Nappi told CBS News. \u2018We know from more than 10 years of hydrological studies on the site that it [radioactive contaminants] can\u2019t reach drinking water sources in nearby communities,\u201d Ibid.<\/p>\n<p>So, where do the radioactive contaminants go?<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more, according to Riverkeeper, since at least August 2005, radioactive toxins such as tritium and strontium-90 have been leaking from at least two spent fuel pools at Indian Point into the groundwater and the Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Point: Fukushima\u2019s Mini-Me Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant New York continually leaks radioactivity into the Hudson River. This has been going on for years. Seriously! Meanwhile, New York\u2019s Governor Andrew Cuomo agrees with advocacy groups such as Riverkeeper, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and The Sierra Club to close Indian Point. Why? Environmentalists claim the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1981,5493,340,395,5399,12829,567,5397,579,690,12542,12828],"class_list":["post-18626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-counterpunch","tag-fukushima","tag-health","tag-indian-point","tag-national-research-council","tag-new-york","tag-nrc","tag-nuclear-power","tag-risk","tag-robert-hunziker","tag-tritium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18627,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}