Like most people, I found it incomprehensible that Vermont Yankee employees did not know that underground, radiation-carrying pipes exist at Vermont Yankee. A glance at the simplest of blueprints would have revealed the pipes.  More to the point: for safety, plant operators must know where radioactive material is going at all times.  To believe that the lies concerning the pipes were an “oversight,” one must accept that the employees are hopelessly inept.  Perhaps I am naïve, but I cannot believe that Vermont Yankee employees are this hopeless.  So, why did management lie when the odds were good they would get caught?

I suspect Entergy knew about the leak before they testified.  I believe they took a calculated risk in playing dumb about the pipes with hopes that the leak would not be discovered until after the relicensing process is complete-and in their favor.  I’m not an engineer, but the contaminated area is large by anyone’s standards; this leak did not begin recently.

Of course, I know of no proof of this, but my theory goes a long way in explaining the laughable lies that were attempted.  I can think of no other rationale.

I don’t have the legal wherewithal to pursue this, but I wish someone would file a suit (if that is what one does in this case) to see when Entergy knew about the leaks.  I also wish they would close the plant now.  A “little” radiation is too much.