Can I get Strontium-90 with my fish?” -…

Can I get Strontium-90 with my fish?” – last year, Vermont voted to force the shutdown of Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. A perch was caught in the Connecticut River that tested positive for Strontium-90, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear activity. There is a lot of finger pointing going on at the moment as to whether this radiation is related to a leak at the nuclear power plant or if it is residue from the atmospheric nuclear tests of the 1950s and 1960s or Chernobyl…. The existing nuclear power plants in this country are 30 to 40 years old now – and had a life expentency of 50 years (VT Yankee is 38 years old). Building replacements in less than 10 years is optimistic. The U.S. no longer even has the technology to fabricate the large cap that is needed on the top of the pressure vessel and must rely on them being made in Asia….