Point Lepreau heavy-water leak totaled about 200 litres after elevated tritium forced a shutdown
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Point Lepreau (New Brunswick) shut down after elevated tritium led to discovery of an ~200-litre heavy-water leak. CANDU/heavy-water fleets carry distinctive leak, tritium, and forced-outage profiles; risk engineers should keep leak detection, isotope monitoring, and outage-duration assumptions current when rating Canadian nuclear property and BI. | Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/high-levels-radioactive-isotopes-disovery-lepreau-leak-9.7354212