A good read from today’s Freeps:

Vermont Yankee Oversight Panel (VYOP) report was 50 pages long, which makes it difficult to summarize in an opinion piece limited to 600 words, but as the VYOP’s first chairman, I believe it is important for all Vermonters to understand the panel’s assessment of Yankee’s reliability. Our report was a consensus report created by four individuals with many years of broad nuclear power experience.

The rumor around the state, that the VYOP gave Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant a clean bill of health, is simply not true. With significant reservations, we concluded that Entergy’s Vermont Yankee (VY) nuclear plant might operate “reliably” for 20 more years if Entergy made all the required repairs and updates, but thus far there is no methodology in place to assure Vermonters that those costly repairs are made.

The VYOP uncovered serious and system-wide problems. We concluded that VY has both mechanical and cultural problems that Entergy must address before any license extension to 2032.

Check out the whole thing. An important read.