When radioactive water burbled up through a secluded manhole cover at the Limerick nuclear plant on March 19, 2012 and flowed into Possum Hollow Creek and the Schuylkill River, it was not the first time it had happened.
It was the fourth overflow, and the second with radioactive material, in the last four years.
Despite this repeated error, documents at Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station examined by Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors for a May 7 report found no evidence that the company took measures to detect future spills from the same secluded grate — until now. And this was despite the company’s conclusion that at least one 2008 spill led to elevated levels of radioactive tritium in a sample taken from a nearby monitoring well.
2 comments:
Oof...legitimate and actual horror.
Side note, but 'Exelon' seems like just the kind of name that a writer would come up with if they wanted the audience / reader to immediately conjure a soulless corporation willing to cut any corner, sidestep any regulation, and just be generally evil.
Haha totally
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