A Message from Xcel Energy
For more than two years, Xcel Energy has been working to recover tritium from water that leaked into the ground beneath the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant. We have installed many new monitoring wells and increased our monitoring frequency to guide this work and have retrieved millions of gallons of affected water. Our teams have driven down tritium concentrations in the groundwater by more than 90 percent from their initial recordings. Of the more than three dozen wells now on site, only two, located right below the plant structure, currently measure tritium at a level above the Environmental Protection Agency’s safe drinking water standard.