A nuclear power plant along the Mississippi River in Monticello, Minnesota, has leaked more than 400,000 gallons of radioactive water due to a broken pipe. NBC’s Maggie Vespa has the details.
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What even is 2023 at this point. Like woooooow
There is no war in Ba Sing Sa.
Clean, safe, reliable Nukes.
Building it better with biden
I don't believe anything the newz, gov or corps say. They only know how to lie. And the leak is prolly on purpose.
I bet a whole town has disappeared people will never know who's going to know
Nothing to worry about…Ukraine is ok with the 100's of billions the US is giving them….
More terrorist attacks
"U.S. believes China is considering giving Russia weapons."
US media reports what is China's head but does not report what is in their own house.
US politicians care more about Ukrainians than about their own people.
That is hilarious!
This is over dramatic. There is no danger to the public. It was contained and being cleaned up.
Jesus take the wheel
This is sad. I hope there is enough bottled water for everyone in Minneapolis for the next 12 months!
45 million people get their water and food grown with water from the mississippi river right to new orleans IT'S ALL THE LEFTIST DEMOCRAT GREEN ENERGY PARTY'S FAULT, KEEPING OUR POWER PLANTS AND GRID FROM UPDATING AND FIXING AND REPAIRING AND REPLACING OUR 1950'S AND 1970'S ANCIENT OLD WORN OUT POWER PLANTS. MONTICELLO NUCLEAR PLANT IS NEUTRINO DEGRADED TO FAILURE BEING FORCED TO REMAIN OPEN 20 YEARS AFTER IT'S SAFE OPERATION LIFE EXPECTANCY DESIGN, BECKER SHERCO COAL PLANT IS SHUTTING DOWN THIS YEAR DESPITE IT BEING THE SAME AGE JUST BECAUSE IT OF HATE FOR COAL, NEXT WINTER IT WILL BE REPLACED BY A SOLAR FIELD JUST LIKE THE ONE IN THE TEXAS BLIZZARD POWER FAILURE BUT IN MINNE-SNOW-TAH, INVEST IN WOOD BURNING FIRE PLACES AND HURRICANE KEROSENE LAMPS, YOUR LIVES WILL DE PEND UPON THEM THANKS TO CLIMATE TERRORISM LIES.
sent from acacia ave ne, monticello minnesota, my neighbor changes the fuel rods, my other neighbor is one of the control room operators for this plant. my well comes from the aquifer this plant sits on top of. there are over 1 billion springs along this stretch of the mississippi river i fish from shore from the center of town all the way to the becker sherco water intake and discharge pump house right on the river north of me. alot of it is run off from the surface water from rain and snow.
After so many months then you repirt this news
Why dont you report 2033 ten years later ?
Last year leaked radioactive ☢️ 2023 march then u report it 😊
some people in charge of this need to go to prison. This is outrageous
…tommorrow isn't gauranteed ever ,… maybe shorter
So why did you tell us now if it wasn't that dangerous? Lies lies and more lies
"Perfectly safe!" Just like Ohio's water.
400,000 gallons is 2/3 of an Olympic size swimming pool. Not saying that's not a lot. Not saying ANY is ok. Honestly. But I think it's hard for some people to visualize 400,000 gallons and I think the media knows that and uses headlines with numbers harder to imagine to scare people more. Just saying
cancer is really horrible sometimes , the bone cancer is probably like turning to slush alive so they just give those a lot of pain meds but some point pain meds can just make one drunk sort of and still in pain from old injuries i noticed but it's how a lot die , why we should be nicer to each other too imo life is too short already on this earth…
keep Trusting Uncle Sam if you want🧐 Kept it a secret since Thanksgiving but we're supposed to believe the water is safe to drink ha🧐 ok 👍
don't make me angry mr. macgee you wouldn't want to see me when i'm angry
Democratic state
yeah since thanks giving i was delivering tons of PPE and tons of parts and radiation suits and radiation detection equipment sent from the atomic energy commission, i should have known something was up. my neighborhood is full of plant workers, the guy right next to me is one of the plant operators, down the street is the guy who changes the fuel rods, and at the end of the street is another guy who works at the coal plant up river a few more miles that is being shut down to be replaced with solar panels so all minnesota can suffer texas blizzard power failures every year!
now i understand why, there were about 400 plus people pulled from all over excel energy thru ought the country that were sent directly to the training facility across the road, also the town isn't a little ways off, this isthe end of town, across the road from this plant is only a few hundred peoples homes that the camera guys purposely didn't show, and i like how they kept using monticello more than excel energy….. before the buy out NSP never let this happen.
Honey! Yes? Why are the kids glowing? They're beaming with life sweetie. Meanwhile at the nuke plant. 😳
probably it's the trigender reproductive cycle then is all
i think tritium is glow in the dark paint ingredient ? the weapons grade stuff fizzles off or xray radiation too , it doesn't remain around long at all but nukes stuff fast then gone but seems like the paint stuff must hang around a lot longer since it glows a long time ?
They're saying that it's safe and what about the people its downstream from that like Indiana Illinois
XCEL must have friends in high places. To have pushed this out this long.
The funniest thing is that on their website It's well displayed 'safety always' and in the careers section they require full vaccination certificates to all applicants but then they destroy the environment killing people.What a disgusting company and what a shame for the United States.
Biden ever show up?
That’s how news are manipulated in United States of American. God bless America 🇺🇸
This will be swept under the rug in a week just like everything else in our country
Oh my God, please protect us.
Absolutely disgusting
Nuclear is not green energy
This is another reason we need to escalate our transition to distributed and decentralized renewably powered electricity to power everything everywhere.
"The leak did not contaminate the mississippi river". So it definately contaminated the mississippi river
It was probably Trump's fault.
Nothing was said because it was tried to be covered up so excel doesn't have to spend millions of $ into that economy to fix their mistake.
PEOPLE need to realize that solar energy is better for them and the environment.
Close all power plants
Lock up Trump. Orange man bad.
Give us the name of the politicians in XCel's pocket. Who has this energy company been lobbying and who has taken the money?
And you guys think theyll tell you when the missles are flying.
As crazy and over reactive people are I can't blame them for not telling people. There's probably a pond on site
Biden will treat them like Ohio. Less than Ukraine and SVB