LOUISA, Va. — After an elevated level of tritium was detected in groundwater at its North Anna nuclear power plant, Dominion Virginia Power is looking for the leak’s source, according to the Herald Times Reporter. 

According to company spokesman Rick Zuercher, the plant’s reactors are not the source of the leaking radioactivity, stated the article. 

Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which explained that the radiation is not a public health risk, was told by the company that tritium in water taken from an on-site sampling well was more than twice the federal standard for drinking water and added that the contaminated water is not currently leaking off-site. 

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