Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report released yesterday that the risk from the tritium-contaminated water leaking from the Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor is so small that it is unlikely to affect the health of plant workers or the public. In its report, the commission said it had not found any condition that indicates that occupational or public health and safety have been, or likely will be, affected by the current onsite groundwater contamination. The commission said it had reviewed, and did not dispute, an estimate by the plant owner, Entergy, that the largest direct exposure that a member of the public could receive from the leaking tritium was less than one ten-thousandth of 1 percent of the maximum that the plant is allowed to cause by leaking liquids.