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N-plant won't release report on cause of leak

LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J.
(The Associated Press) - Jun 29
The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey thinks it
knows what caused a leak of radioactive tritium - but it's keeping the
> information secret.
>
> The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a report addresses
> groundwater contaminated with tritium, some of which may be entering a
> cooling canal flowing into Barnegat Bay in undetectable levels.
>
> Plant spokesman David Benson says the report is an internal
> company document meant only for engineers.
>
> But the NRC may include it in an inspection report it plans to
> release in about six weeks.
>
> The nation's oldest commercial nuclear power plant got a new 20-
> year license in April. It will be 60 years old at the end of the new
> license.