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Xcel Energy reports on tritium levels in well near Mississippi River
Recent testing of a monitoring well in Minnesota near the Mississippi River detected tritium levels just below the safety standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency, Xcel Energy reported this week.
Friederike Bostelmann, Andrew M. Holcomb, William J. Marshall, Vladimir Sobes, Bradley T. Rearden (ORNL)
Transactions | Volume 121 | Number 1 | November 2019 | Pages 1369-1372
