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Dear Lord,
If ever I needed to pray, the time is now. Just as the Department of Public Service, the NRC, and the Legislator are set to give me the old upper-down vote, the distribution piping in one of our cooling towers has sprung a significant leak.
"During routine daily inspection rounds this morning Vermont Yankee auxiliary operators identified a 60 to 100 gallons per minute leak in the 90,000 gallons per minute flow system pipe carrying cooling water in the east cooling tower," is what Brian Cosgrove, Vermont Yankee's manager for governmental affairs, explained y memo to Vermont's congressional delegation.
Plant output has been reduced to around 50%. And the problems don't end there. Saddle supports for both the east and west towers are sagging.
Stephen Wark of the Department of Public Service is disappointed. Well, duh. Stay tuned, Lord. Some REAL prayers are to come.
Fake-Rob
Spiritual Musings of Vermont Yankee's PR Guy
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About Me
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- ... and a word about the Real Rob Williams, too. To no one's surprise, it turns out that Fake-Rob Williams and the Real Rob Williams are not the same person. The authors of this satirical blog have never even met the Real Rob Williams. We assume that he is not the sniveling, devious, inept guy that Fake-Rob is. We have given Fake-Rob those characteristics because that is how Entergy and Vermont Yankee appear to us through Real Rob's statements as well as through the statements of other Entergy and Vermont Yankee officials. That being said, Fake-Rob is pretty normal. His favorite newspaper is "The Brattleboro Reformer." His favorite song is "Stairway to Heaven." His favorite cancer is testicular because, well, kids get sick from radiation poisoning more readily than adults do, and at least when kids get cancer, it's not often in their testicles.
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- Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons
- NRC Raps Vermont Yankee on Procedure
- Uldis Vanags Not a Nuclear Engineer
- Vermont Yankee Closing Funds Not Available until 2032
- Top Scientists Question Bush's Race for New Nukes
- Businesses Urge Congress to Nix Loan Guarantees for Nuclear Industry
- Groups Urge Stockpiling of Nuclear Medicine
- Will Entergy Lose Its Bid to Relicense Vermont Yankee?
- Relocalizing Vermont
- Neighbors Are Concerned
- Vermonters Take Hard Look at Future of Vermont Yankee Plant
2 comments:
And to think the NRC ( Nobody Really Cares) oversaw the rebuild of the cooling tower after the spectacular collapse last August... and VT legislators were told how well repaired they were...with new synthetic wood etc... and the suckers break less than 2 months after Entergy started using the towers again because the Environmental Court judge said they can't dump their heated water into the CT river....
I guess I feel bad for Stevie Wark's disappointment. Shows to go him that he was naive to have had the expectation of
a) oversight
b) skilled workmanship
c) reliability
d) all the above
from Entergy.
Damn- I heard Entergy after the cooling towers last year say how well they had fixed em... and to think... they were not telling the truth.
Last year they said that prior to the spectacular cooling tower collapse 8/23/07, they had been unable to do a hands on visual inspection of the wood supporting the cooling towers... Now they are supposedly able to do the inspections and less spectacularly presto another leak is found.
Meanwhile, while the reactor is at 47% power the VT utilities are buying power on the Spot market at very high costs... and that will be paid for by the ratepayers because Entergy has no responsibility to provide the power in the event of an outage like this...
Will Entergy take the road of responsibility and volunteer to pay for the power the utilities must buy because their oversight and poor workmanship (and the NRCs' poor oversight) led to the reactor dropping power for a second time in a year for something that was supposedly fixed the first time?
I doubt it.
hey, say hi to the top NRC folks for us will you?
We are so glad that they took the time out of their busy golf schedule to check out with their own two eyes the shoddy, cheap, last minute patch job which Entergy is known throughout their work force for.
how do you manage to lie again? and again? doesn't anyone have a conscience any more? or does the almighty dollar keep people's mouths shut? Entergy is sure getting more than full value for their buck.
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