The Vermont Department of Health announced on Aug. 17 that laboratory tests revealed low levels of the radioactive isotope tritium on the Connecticut River’s shoreline adjacent to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power station.
“We have been tracking the plume of tritium-contaminated groundwater as it moves slowly toward the river, and this new finding confirms that the tritium has traveled from the Yankee site to the Connecticut River,” said Health Commissioner Harry Chen, M.D. [...]
