8 thoughts on “Compare and contrast”

  1. Site vice president for Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee Michael J. Colomb, writes in a vtdigger.com opinion piece titled Setting the Record Straight:

    Before addressing plant reliability, it is worth noting that Vermont Yankee provides an extraordinary level of operational transparency.

     Colomb was one of two executives in 2010 that had trouble explaining under oath anything about under the existence of leaking ground pipes.His VY colleague VP Jay Thayer who also had problems with transparency was fired or reassigned.

    Another surprise is this from the Times Argus (@ paywall)

    The Department of Health announced Monday another well at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant showed radioactive contamination, but at very low levels.

    It seems it is possible to release VY test information on a day other than Friday.

    However Super Bowl weekend may have fouled the timing up. This article was surrounded, by the way with not just one but two VT4Vermont Yankee banner ads

    http://vtdigger.org/2011/02/06…

  2. I’m so glad the former Governor forced the hand that will help move that leaching, toxic, immediate threat to public health to a properly designed and managed facility. Those damned hippies getting all the food waste out of our landfills and working to offer a local, sustainable product have no business running in operation on the banks of a river that feeds into a lake that is used by a couple hundred thousand as a source of drinking water.

    I’m sure that with that example of strict government oversight VY is truly safe clean and reliable as it generates power from some of the most powerful and dangerous materials known to man as it sits on a freshwater river that flows past and through the Northeastern US, a place that millions and millions of people call home. Right?  

  3. who, last spring got caught redhanded concealing new leak info.

    An enronmental group advocate (Shadis, I think)allowed him to get well into his ‘talk’ before standing up and asking point blank if there had been another mishap/leak @ the plant. Er, yes there had been. A whistleblower had contacted Ray. Crack in the control tower room pipe.

    VY has cooling tower problems (again)

    http://rutlandherald.typepad.c…

    “The news came up at a NRC meeting in Brattleboro Tuesday night. I’m sure it was the focus of the meeting. Right? Oh, wait.

    Until the issue was brought up by Raymond Shadis, senior technical advisor to the nuclear watchdog group The New England Coalition, about two hours into the meeting[..]”

  4. THIS is the kind of crap our attorney general (Note, NOT “Surgeon General”) ought to be spending his time on instead of charging kids an extra 12 cents for a can of soda.

    But where is Bill Sorrell? Um, not in on this, apparently.

    Maybe he could take a look at whether the employees of LA-ENVY are drinking tax-free soda from NH. Maybe they could offer him a drink from that now-contaminated former drinking water well. In a few months they could invite him to go swimming in the Connecticut River downstream from the plant (the water will be plenty warm) as part of the company’s annual picnic.

    NanuqFC

    In a Time of Universal Deceit, TELLING the TRUTH Is a Revolutionary Act. ~ George Orwell

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