Radioactive Strontium Fish in the Connecticut River Near Nuke Plant (Bill)

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2011-08-05 22:17

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/08/05/how-did-those-vermont-fis...

More than 50% of fish tested were positive for Sr-90 contamination in their bones and it was also found in fish fillets.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/08/05/how-did-those-vermont-fis...

The state of Vermont is trying to shut the nuke plant down (as is Arne Gundersen and his allies) but the NRC had approved these old leaky plants for another twenty years.

This river flows from Canada to Long Island Sound and millions of people use this waterway and beaches along it and on the sound.

Troubling. Please post comments and support for this blog at Forbes and pass this story far and wide to get more exposure (FB twitter etc)

This must end!

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It's normal to find both

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2011-09-02 07:37.

It's normal to find both Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 in the water and land all over the world. Atmoshperic nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s put an awful lot of Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 into the environment. Because of that, you shouldn't expect your environment to be free of either of these radioisotopes.

Not the kind of fish I'd like to eat, that's for sure.

Submitted by Fly Shop (not verified) on Sun, 2011-08-28 17:02.

Yeah that is a pretty bad situation. Radioactive fishing doesn't sound fun lol. Crazy world we live in.

Here is the URL for the actual report

Submitted by Bill (not verified) on Sat, 2011-08-06 10:49.

http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/yankee/tritium.aspx

The results are scary.

"The Vermont fish were taken

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2011-08-05 22:56.

"The Vermont fish were taken from the river months before the Fukushima accident."

How long have they been testing, half a year?

Anyway, do we have a link to the results or just this article?