About 400,000 gallons of radioactive water has leaked from a nuclear power plant in Monticello, the midwestern US state of Minnesota, regulators revealed recently
About 400,000 gallons of radioactive water has leaked from a nuclear power plant in Monticello, the midwestern US state of Minnesota, regulators revealed recently.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) said this week that state agencies are monitoring Xcel Energy’s efforts to clean up « a release of water contaminated with tritium » detected at the company’s Monticello nuclear-generating plant, Xinhua news agency reported.
Xcel Energy reported the leak to the Minnesota Duty Officer and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in late November 2022 after finding unusual results during routine groundwater monitoring.
