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AnotherMcIntosh

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5. Actually, given enough time, I suspect that a 7.0 quake would not be too unusual for the area.
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 12:03 AM
Jun 2012

This story from 2011 may also be of interest:

Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.

Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard — sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.
http://www.wbez.org/story/tritium-leaks-found-illinois-nuclear-sites-88386

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