Reporter Susan Smallheer gets the the prize this week for Entergy Nuclear news stories. Writing in the Rutland Herald, Smallheer first broke the story of the fish caught in the CT River, laced with strontium.

VT’s radioactive Health Officer, Bill Irwin, claims the strontium couldn’t be from Vermont Yankee. Arnie Gundersen says it sure could be, and “I would check a hell of a lot more fish.”

As far as predictions and analysis go, I think Arnie’s got a better record.

http://rutlandherald.com/artic…

Susan’s next great story: sinkholes! For the last two years, engineers have noticed–and reported, five different times–sinkholes near the leak location. According to the NRC, Entergy Nuclear treated these as “trip hazards”, not indicators that something seriously wrong was happening underground.  Conveniently, when radiactive tritium showed up in the test wells by the river, those sinkholes helped Entergy know right where to dig for the leaks.

http://rutlandherald.com/artic…

Thanks, Susan. Keep asking questions.