POINT LEPREAU, N.B. – Low levels of radioactivity drifting from Japan have been detected on the monitoring systems of New Brunswick’s Point Lepreau nuclear power plant.
But the province’s Crown-owned utility, NB Power, says the public isn’t at risk.
NB Power spokeswoman Kathleen Duguay confirms that monitoring stations have picked up minute traces of Iodine-131 – byproducts of the reactions within nuclear power plants.
She says these signature isotopes do not occur naturally in the environment.
Duguay says the levels detected do not pose a health risk to the public.
She says the level of radiation measured equates to 0.0005 per cent of the safe annual limit set by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
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