Indian Point: Robot to help search for tritium leak
Michael Risinit
Indian Point officials will send a camera-equipped robot into pipes beneath the nuclear power plant next week to try to find the source of radioactive material showing up in the groundwater below the plant.
The move is the latest in an investigation that began shortly after elevated levels of tritium were found in two monitoring wells in late March near Indian Point Unit 2. Tritium, a byproduct of nuclear power, is a radioactive form of hydrogen. Federal and plant officials say the tritium-laced groundwater is not a public health threat.
Plant owner Entergy said the contamination most likely stems from a maintenance shutdown in March when radioactive water may have leaked out from a damaged pipe or drain. The water would have eventually settled on the bedrock beneath the plant and is now ebbing and flowing in response to percolating rainwater, said Don Mayer, a program director at Indian Point.
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