Entergy and their buddy, Gov. Douglas, would love you to think that there are no problems at Vermont Yankee and we can happily go forward without too many worries. We haven't seen it quite the same way here at GMD. In fact, if you search our archives for “Yankee” and “leak” you'll find over 200 entries, and I don't think any of them refer to George Steinbrenner's highest paid employees.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, who has served on the oversight panel looking into Vermont Yankee's operations, has an op-ed piece in the Free Press today that explores and summarizes the panel's findings and recommendations. Guess what: it's not the clean bill of health that you might have heard.
Here are a couple of highlights, but you'll want to follow the link to read the whole thing.
And as you think of our future with Vermont Yankee continuing to run, and with the 60-year cool-down period vouchsafed to VY by Douglas, you might want to ask yourself, “Do you feel lucky today?”