Vermont Yankee tainted water up to 400K gallons, so far

VERNON - Since February, Vermont Yankee has shipped away nearly 400,000 gallons of polluted water via tanker truck.

But those trucks are not departing from the shut-down Vernon nuclear plant nearly as often as they had been earlier this year.

That's because plant administrators say they've continued to attack a stubborn water-intrusion problem in the facility's turbine building. In fact, they say the most recent water-control measure reduced flows by about half.

"That's a success, and we continue to look at other areas that we can seal up or repair to continue to minimize that intrusion water," said Joe Lynch, government affairs senior manager for plant owner Entergy.

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