North Anna: 53,300 picocuries per liter detected — “No evidence” that increase in radioactivity related to quake says spokesman

North Anna: 53,300 picocuries per liter detected — Not sure where radiation is leaking — “No evidence” that increase in radioactivity related to quake says spokesman

Elevated radioactivity levels found in North Anna well

[... North Anna operator] Dominion Virginia Power is not sure where the radioactivity is leaking from, but the two reactors at the Louisa County plant are not the source [...]

“There is no evidence that the increased concentration of tritium we sampled was related to the earthquake” [...]

“Last Friday, we received confirmation from an outside contractor that tritium at a sample point exceeded the voluntary reporting level [...]

The industry’s voluntary threshold for reporting such contamination — which Dominion Virginia Power adheres to — is 20,000 picocuries per liter. The sample the company took showed a radiation concentration of 53,300 picocuries per liter. [...]

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