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Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak
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."
Corporate malfeasance, a dash of coverup, and a more or less fully captured regulatory agency!
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....
"...and informed citizens should be applauding it."
They are. Both of them.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
DEATH BY SNU SNU!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Plus it also requires using a massive, unshielded, nuclear fusion reactor.
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