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Vermont May Revoke Nuclear Plant License
mdsolar writes "Following the Vermont Senate's 26-to-4 vote not to approve a 20-year license extension for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the Vermont Public Service Board will consider revoking its operating license as well. Meanwhile, the plant continues to operate without its Director of Nuclear Safety Assurance, who has been placed on administrative leave; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has merely issued a Demand for Information rather than shutting down a plant that is lacking a full complement of safety personnel. It may be that the NRC is not capable of doing what is needed with regard to Entergy, the plant owner, which is also facing prosecution by the Mississippi Attorney General."
They have released far more fission products which are the dangerous radioactive materials since we are not adapted to them. The ORNL page on this is complete BS.
Yes, actually. It remains in the ash which is the soil of the forest that became coal. It is about as radioactive as other low carbon soil that we are used to. It is fission which is unnatural and dangerous in this respect. Coal does have a problem with airborne mercury and sulfur.
Stodgy old protestant I'm afraid. I do get romanticized on slashdot which is a little uh, disturbing. I support nuclear power in naval propulsion applications but it is pretty clear that civilian nuclear power is a mistake. I have a fairly low acceptance-to-submission ratio for articles, around 0.16 last I checked.
Nuclear power plants can only be put where they can be cooled which usually means close to population centers where the large slow flowing rivers are. There continue to be restrictions on land use owing to fallout as far downwind from Chernobyl as the UK