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This table lists sites where water is impacted by radioactive contamination:
Contaminants of interest include: Tritium Uranium Plutonium Cobalt-60 Cesium-137 Iodine-131, and Strontium-90.

Tritium in water is a problem in groundwater because it is difficult to separate once combined.

Site Name City, State State Contaminants Acquifer/water source name
Byron Nuclear Generating Station Byron, Illinois Illinois tritium [1]
Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station Will County, Illinois Illinois tritium
Dresden Nuclear Power Plant Morris, Illinois Illinois tritium [2]
Indian Point Energy Center Buchanan, New York New York tritium
Callaway Nuclear Power Plant Fulton, MO Missouri tritium, cesium-137, cobalt-60 [3]
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Wintersburg, Arizona Arizona tritium [4]

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Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station Cordova, IL Illinois tritium [6]
Pantex Plant (DOE) Amarillo, TX Texas tritium Ogallala Aquifer
Fernald Feed Materials Production Center (DOE) Fernald, OH Ohio uranium Great Miami Buried Acquifer
Rocky Flats Plant (DOE) Denver, CO Colorado tritium plutonium
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Paducah, KY Kentucky tritium uranium
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Piketon, OH Ohio uranium, technetium99[7] Little Beaver Creek
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, CA California tritium Strawberry Creek[8]
Hanford reservation Hanford, WA Washington

References

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  1. ^ | [Preliminary Notification PNO-III-06-004B]
  2. ^ [ Preliminary Notification PNO-III-06-004] |
  3. ^ Callaway releases * Preliminary Notification PNO-IV-06-009
  4. ^ * Event Notification Report 42381
  5. ^ * Preliminary Notification PNO-IV-06-001
  6. ^ * Preliminary Notification PNO-III-08-011
  7. ^ [http://www.epa.ohio.gov/portals/35/documents/LittleBeaver92.pdf Fish Tissue Bottom Sediment ORGANIC,RADIOLOGICAL & METAL CHEMICAL EVALUATION Ohio EPA (1992)
  8. ^ Tritium report
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EPA information page on tritium
EPA information page on technetium
EPA information page on uranium

{archive} Tritium levels in Ohio test wells