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Water At Brookhaven Has 70X Allowable Strontium Levels

By Newsradio 88 Staff

New test results of groundwater at Brookhaven National Laboratory shows a concentration of Strontium-90 that is 70 times higher than federal levels allow.

The radioactive strontium-90 was found in test wells near the Labs exhaust stack at a reactor that was shut down last January, due to a leak of tritium. Lab spokeswoman Kara Villamil says the strontium 90 probably came from a sump tank that also held drainage water from another reactor that was closed in 1968.

The strontium 90 is about one-and-a-half miles from the nearest home.