BUCHANAN, NY – Radioactive water leaking into the ground around the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant site is not a threat to the region's drinking water supply, operators of the facility said in an October 9 article in the New York Daily News.
Entergy, the company that operates Indian Point, has drilled 54 monitoring wells to detect contamination in the groundwater around the plant, which is 24 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River, the story said.
Drinking water supplies tested two miles from the plant were found free of radioactive contaminants, according to Entergy and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but the size of underground pools containing radioactive water is increasing, the report noted.
Environmental groups claim the contaminants, including tritium and strontium-90, are seeping into the Hudson River and will eventually reach underground aquifers and drinking water supplies, according to the article.
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