AmerenUE purchases land one day before admitting it leaked radioactive trillium there

Shortly before announcing that radioactive tritium had leaked along a pipeline near its Callaway nuclear plant, AmerenUE bought more than 120 acres where two of the leaks were found, according to records and interviews.

The utility confirmed that it also is talking to at least one more landowner to secure the remaining property along the six-mile discharge pipe that carries cooling water and some low-level radioactive waste from the 1,190-megawatt power plant to the Missouri River. See the full story here.