Entergy Nuclear has told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that its review of statements made to federal regulators for the past five years revealed no problems.

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“The investigation also concluded that no one made any intentionally false statements in state regulatory proceeding,” the report stated.

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“Accordingly, no corrective actions or compensatory measures are required,” McCann told the NRC.

(In-house review clears Entergy, Times Argues, 04/03/10)

Of course “corrective actions” aren’t included in the fact that “several top-level Entergy Nuclear officials were punished” (ibid) anymore than claiming buried pipes that don’t have direct contact with the dirt should be included in the list of buried pipes.

But hey … Louisiana Entergy tells us it’s so.

Oh, by the way …

Tests on the silt and debris in an underground pipe tunnel at Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor confirmed that the source of the cesium-137 is failed fuel rods at the reactor, and not fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster or above-ground weapons testing, both Entergy and the Department of Health said Friday.

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Irwin said the cesium probably was in the bottom of the pipe tunnel, and was washed out into the environment via the same leak that led to the tritium contamination at Yankee.

(Yankee tests point to failed fuel rods, Times Argus, 04/03/10)

Lest we forget

Entergy Nuclear has found traces of cesium-137, a radioisotope, about 15 feet underground in the excavation trench where it is searching for the leak that has contaminated groundwater at the Vermont Yankee reactor for the past two months.

Entergy Nuclear said the cesium was found in trace amounts, and at background levels, a result of radiation from nuclear bomb tests and the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, and was not the result of the tritium leak.

Entergy wouldn’t disclose the cesium measurements.

(New radioisotope found at Yankee, Times Argus, 02/26/10)

But then again … Louisiana Entergy says it is so.