400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked in November, Minnesota utility company says

An electric utility company announced Thursday that one of its Minnesota plants leaked 400,000 gallons of radioactive water last year. The leak of water containing tritium from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant "poses no health and safety risk to the local community or the environment," the Minneapolis-based utility said in a statement. Monitoring efforts confirm the leaked water "is fully contained on-site" and has not been detected in any local drinking water, according to Xcel Energy. The leak came from a pipe between two buildings and was detected by...