I’ve fixed the link. It seems to have been my error in coding. It should work now.
According to this morning’s Free Press, the NRC is poised to relicense Vermont Yankee as early as next week. It’s time to flood the NRC with calls and e-mails expressing alarm and opposition to continued operation of the plant.
Telephone numbers are given on their website:
Public Affairs 301-415-8200
Safety or Security Concerns 1-800-695-7403
I decided an e-mail was in order, but there is no e-mail address given. You have to go to this page. You’ll find an embedded submission form which you fill-out and send.
There’s no more time to waste. Do it today.
The NRC has no valid (in their circles) reason to not approve VY. The NRC’s policy has always been to automatically renew licenses. Not renewing licenses just doesn’t happen, even if the plant is at the end of it’s lifespan, leaking radioactive materials by the gallon every day, and decaying so fast it’s visible to the naked eye.
The NRC has no interest in what a handful of non-pro-nuclear non-scientist rabble-rousers have to say. The sole interest the NRC has is that a nuclear plant needs to be re-licensed. The NRC’s job is to rubber-stamp that renewal no matter what, no matter how dangerous, deadly, decrepit, no matter how much radioactive material that plant has released into the environment. None of that has any bearing on a plant’s license renewal. The loss of any plant is intolerable to the NRC.
I can’t think of any plant that is in better position for a REAL regulatory agency to honestly evaluate and come to the conclusion that it is too old and therefore unsafe to continue operating. But the NRC is not a REAL regulatory agency.
The sole purpose of the NRC is to shield the nuclear power industry from the American citizen, everything they do is in service to that primary goal. In fact, the more people protest a nuclear plant, the more the NRC feels obligated to renew it.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the NRC is eager to renew VY’s license. Keeping the decrepit VY operating until it fails catastrophically is a Gold Standard among nuclear plant owners. Like Wisconsin Gov Wilson – it can’t fail, it means too much symbolically to the far-right. If they lose VY, then who knows where the next domino will fall.
to the electronic submittal seems to be broken.
the courts will be the next major front in this battle.
Got to hope VT AG Sorrel is up to the task.
Fresh and rested after his recent soda wars.
Stand firm on VY, even when the diehards whine about jobs. More will be created if we kill the plant and invest in sustainable energy:
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo…
Doesn’t mean shite & mere procedural move. VT must issue state licensure to all businesses. Without this they must cease operations upon scheduled closure date. VT Senate put the kabosh on it & shut down the game a year ago. This is a good thing-not a bad thing. Did we think this would not happen? Of course not.
If VY unlicensed, they can operate somewhat indefinately, which is why I suspected NRC was dragging asses. States & their rights including VT have much more power than these jackasses if they would only take the reins as VT did. This is available to every state-to allow the state to have some oversight, it is recognized in NRC rules that states have rights over that which is not solely w/in NRC purview-safety & radiological releases.
And more heavy hammers where that one came from. Groundwater legislation, which we always knew we had, now has a legal precedent w/Omya brouhaha. Statehouse only turns bluer w/each election.
PSB nailed their asses to the wall w/order to submit future bimonthly reports as a legal affadavit. CLF has once again opened another PSB docket.