Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak 385
mdsolar writes "The leaking Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant was hit last week by a whistleblower allegation that a previous tritium leak had occurred. Now the parent company, Entergy, has admitted the occurrence of at least one prior leak to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This is particularly significant for three reasons: because the leak occurred in pipes that company officials later testified under oath did not exist, because the Vermont Senate will likely soon vote to deny Entergy a needed approval to extend the power plant's license for another 20 years, and because President Obama just put taxpayers on the hook for new nuclear power plants in Georgia."
Hurray! (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, am fully confident that the present minor tritium leak is the only thing going wrong, or likely to go wrong in the near future. Everything else is absolutely fine and, if it weren't, those involved would do the responsible thing and fix it....
Re:Absurd (Score:5, Funny)
"...and informed citizens should be applauding it."
They are. Both of them.
Re:WHAT! (Score:2, Funny)
Kind of like bullets and knives...
Re:WHAT! (Score:5, Funny)
DEATH BY SNU SNU!
Re:New Plants have nothing to do with old... (Score:2, Funny)
But yes, do the Anti-Nuke faction drive Prius'? or is is Priusi, Priusen? If so we can kill two birds with one stone.
Re:WHAT! (Score:2, Funny)
would that be a Trivial Tritium Trickle?
Re:Troll summary. (Score:3, Funny)
I often wondered that about President Clinton....didn't exactly carry a lot of weight in these parts though.
Re:Troll summary. (Score:4, Funny)
Do you think he knows about the radiation risks of solar? I mean, that is studied, and proven to cause skin cancer!
Re:tritium danger (Score:4, Funny)
When combined with carbon in sugars and starches, it stays in the body when consumed.
Well then we gotta do something! NO MORE SUGARS! DEATH TO BIG STARCHES!
Re:Troll summary. (Score:5, Funny)
Plus it also requires using a massive, unshielded, nuclear fusion reactor.
Re:WHAT! (Score:3, Funny)
"The sources are not the problem, the sinks are."
I must ask to clarify: Are you saying there are not enough sinks in the U.S.? My home has 2 in the bathroom, one in the kitchen, and one in the basement. Now, if you are talking about 'everything but the kitchen sink', that stills leaves me with 3 sinks to dispose of this nuclear waste. There are millions of Americans who have sinks where we can stash the stuff. Once its down the sink, it just disappears and out of sight anyways. Seesh!
"And how do you tell the public that everything is safe when the nuclear industry is lying like Dick Cheney?"
That's quite the loaded statement. You fail to mention how often Dick Cheney tells the truth!
SHIT. (Score:3, Funny)