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The condenser at Vermont Yankee is leaking at a rate of a quarter gallon of water per minute. Two days ago, we powered down to 45% so that we could find the leak.
But we couldn't find it and so, as of this morning, we're powering back up. WHAM! ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR!
Pa-ta-pa-ta-pa-ta-pa-ta,
phROOm.
Ba-da-da-da-da-DA-AH,
phROOmmMMMMM
Ba-da-da-da-da-DA-DAH
In the day we sweat it out on the street of a runaway American dream.
At night we drive through mansions of glory in suicide machines.
You got, it, Lord! "Born to Run!" But you're my shepherd, right? You da man? No evil should I fear and all that?
Then let's forget what Arnie Gundersen says. Arnie is the retired nuclear engineer who warned that an uprate might result in a cooling tower collapse. Hey, he said it and it happened. But that was just good luck. Then he said that an uprate might result in condenser cracks. Hey, good luck again. Worse, he warned that an unchecked leak in the condenser could set off a chain of events that could ultimately result in a crack in the reactor itself.
Well, we can't find that leak, but you're still da man, right, Lord? YES? Well, right about now would be the time for my shepherd to start protecting us all.
Pa-ta-pa-ta-pa-ta-pa-ta,
phROOm.
Ba-da-da-da-da-DA-AH,
phROOmmMMMMM
Ba-da-da-da-da-DA-DAH
Wendy, let me in, I want to be your friend.
I want to guard your dreams and visions….
Bruce Springstein and the good old days. Let's crank it. Now, listen, Lord! Here come the saxophones!
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Step, step, step, kick!
Step, step, step, kick!
Step, step, step, kick!
Step, step, step, kick!
Step, step, step, kick!
Step, step, step, kick!
And with a few male vocals ("Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, OH! OH! OH! OH! OH-oh") and a strong bass lead, we're out!
Amen,
Fake-Rob
1 comment:
Dear Fake-Rob: You might want to see the Synapse report on the nuclear industry restructuring shell game and how it protects corporate asses from liability by creating tax free holding companies with no employees (in the Cayman Islands, sorry, no cushy job there)with multi-billion dollar debt so bankruptcy in the event of any unplanned "event" is certain-sure. It's called "Financial Insecurity: the Increasing Use of Limited Liability Companies and Multi-Tiered Holding companies to Own Nuclear Power Plants", by David Schlissel, et al, Synapse Energy Economics. www.synapse-energy.com. It won't explain to you the dangers of Tritium, that info you can get from Science for Democratic Action, Vol. 14, #4, Feb. 2007. For example, Physicist Arjun Makhijani states in one article in that journal that one gram (approx. the weight of a quarter teaspoon of salt) of Tritium will contaminate almost 500 billion gallons of water up to the current EPA drinking water limit of 20,0000 picocuries/liter. Then there's the effect on pregnant women. I'll leave it to you to inquire further. Thanks. laughingmama
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