Radioactive water that leaked from the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer, at concentrations 50 times higher than those allowed by law, that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state's environmental chief said Friday. Please read more at GreenChange
The radioactive water leaks were found just days after the plant got a new 20-year license in 2009 that environmentalists had bitterly fought for four years. Those problems followed corrosion that left the reactor's crucial safety liner rusted and thinned.
Department spokesman Lawrence Ragonese said there are several potential ways to address the contamination... No option has yet been decided upon.
"It's a sad day when the 'wait and see' approach taken in response to yet another 'trust us' from Exelon results in exactly what we feared , contamination of one of the most significant aquifers in the region," she said.
