I think it was Arnie Gundersen!
The whistler blower the nuclear industry loves to hate, Fairewinds Energy Education’s engineer Arnie Gundersen gets it right again.
Arnie correctly predicted that Entergy would refuse to spend the money needed to replace ENVY’s worn-out steam condenser.
This announcement to close the Vernon reactor deflects attention from ENVY’s radiation monitors going off again. The “faulty monitors” giving high radiation signals in June and July were replaced, and the new monitors are signaling high doses in August.
http://digital.vpr.net/post/ya…
Entergy wants to wait sixty years before the cleanup gets going in earnest, using the NRC approved “Safstor” plan to leave the mess for people not yet living.
And Vernon will be a nuclear waste dump, forever.
Arnie’s presages are very eery…but always come to pass.
Yes there will be radioactive fuel on site for a looooong time.
Pray there will be no accident for the next 15 months! Staff cuts and Entergy financial limitations increase that risk. 15 and counting.
in VY’s FAQ’s to the question of whether or not there is enough money in the decommissioning fund.
In other words, they have barely more there than the MINIMUM required by the NRC…which we know very well is wholly inadequate.
for 60 years, then they have absolutely no intention of actually cleaning up. How many businesses last more than 60 years?
Since they’ve already tried to create shell corporations to take on all the financial burden (and subsequently go bankrupt, so said burden is never met), it’s highly likely they’re just going to bide their time until the short attention span of the American people has been exceeded, then try again. Alternatively, they’ll try to sell themselves off in a decade or so to some larger multinational entity, which will do its own machinations to dump the responsibility onto the taxpayers.