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Leak at Monticello plant labeled `non-emergency'; Low levels of tritium were detected in a recently dug monitoring well, but the levels did not alarm regulators.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 12-SEP-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Leak at Monticello plant labeled `non-emergency'; Low levels of tritium were detected in a recently dug monitoring well, but the levels did not alarm regulators.(NEWS)

Article Excerpt
Byline: BOB VON STERNBERG; STAFF WRITER

In what federal nuclear regulators are calling a "non-emergency," radioactivity has been released from Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant.

Plant operators detected low levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, in a newly dug monitoring well near the plant's reactor building on Thursday, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The release was...

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