It took months for the public to hear about the leak of radioactive water at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, but emails obtained by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS show local officials were told within a week.
In mid-November, an on-site monitoring well underneath the plant detected tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen and a byproduct of the reactor.
Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no.