Xcel Energy will start to power down its nuclear plant in Monticello, Minnesota, several weeks earlier than planned after more radioactive water leaked out of the facility.
Valerie Myers, a health physicist with the NRC, told CBS Minnesota last week that"If we look at the dose impact of something like this, it would be a fraction of a milligram. I'm talking 0.00-something milligrams. The average person will get 300 milligrams in a year just from the sun, the ground, everything," Myers said.
Xcel says powering down the plant will make it easier for crews to"permanently resolve" the leak, which occurred in a water pipe between two buildings at the plant about 42 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The company insists the leak poses no risk to neighbors or the environment, and the shutdown isn't expected to impact electric service.
State agencies were made aware this afternoon of an additional water leak at the Monticello facility following previous news about the leak of 400,000 gallons of water containing tritium. In the State Duty Office report filed today, Xcel Energy states that the new leak, located near the spot of the previously reported release, is still ongoing.
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