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Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak

Posted by kdawson on from the tritium-adds-a-piquant-je-ne-sais-quoi dept.

mdsolar writes "A new report from a nuclear watchdog group finds that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 'is ignoring its oversight and enforcement responsibilities at the nation's increasingly leaky, uninspected and unmaintained nuclear power plants.' Because of this lack of oversight, 'at least 102 reactor units are now documented to have had recurring radioactive leaks into groundwater from 1963 through February 2009.' So, the leak at Vermont Yankee that Slashdot has been following is not just a fluke, but is systemic."

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  1. Re:I haven't ben following it by Shakrai · · Score: 2, Funny

    I couldn't tell the difference between that and Budweiser.

    Frosty piss tastes better.

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  2. Re:Impressive! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    We also have more watts in general, so the above sort of gets lost in comparisons.

    But the big problem is that we have more 'wuts' in general. And they just get lost.

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  3. Re:So says a site... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mr Burns: What do you think you're doing? Put those precious electrons back into the core where they belong!
    Lenny: But that's where they leaked out of, Mr Burns.
    Mr Burns: Put them back before someone trys to hock them on eBay. They aren't iPhone prototypes, you know!
    Mr Smithers: I'm on it, Mr Burns.

  4. Better Subject Line Needed by darkwing_bmf · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought this story was going to be about the National Republican Committee, Virgina Tech and baseball.

  5. Re:Let us now stereotype by SnarfQuest · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't see the nuclear reactors from where I live, but you'd think that the 30 or 50 of them would lead to numerous transformed monstrous animals, but all we've got are jackalopes. They do make a nice sandwich spread, but so far no buildings have been destroyed with laser beams coming out their eyes.

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  6. No! No! NO! by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jesus H. Christ! How many times do I have to tell you! It's clean, not dirty! It's the cleanest of them all! Cleaner than coal! Cleaner than gas! Cleaner than oil! Cleaner than those stupid degenerate bisexual latte-drinking atheistic hippie socialist wind generators! Get it through your god-damned head already!

  7. Re:Divide by zero error by Divide+By+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait up, hold on a minute, I didn't even POST to this thread before now, there's no WAY I've screwed up already!

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