Comments on: After the trial: Vermont Yankee and Entergy http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/after-the-trial-vermont-yankee-and-entergy/ For a thriving New England Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: J D http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/after-the-trial-vermont-yankee-and-entergy/#comment-1952 J D Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:29:23 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=5812#comment-1952 Really Pete!, ""Run until it breaks" philosophy." That quote shows that you are truly unaware of the monumental amount of preventive maintenance that goes into one of these units, and the level of care that people who work there put into their efforts to meet these requirements. If the plant's operators were truly rogue as you say in your response than the NRC would have shut them down decades ago. This is not the 70's, and nuclear power plants are not run like that. Please read up on it, the code of federal regulations that must be met are posted on the NRC's website, while everyone is entitled to their opinion, mine is that if you are going to post a comment or an article, at least educate yourself first. Your comments are baseless and truly unfounded. You need to read up on the law, for it very clearly spells out what needs to be done, and what will occur if those requirements are not met. Vermont Yankee has continuously attempted to exceed the requirements of the law in order to put at ease the local population, and to prove that they have the best interests of not only the company but the public, and comments like yours that have not been researched but are based on hearsay serve only to fan the flames of the uniformed. Really Pete!,

“”Run until it breaks” philosophy.” That quote shows that you are truly unaware of the monumental amount of preventive maintenance that goes into one of these units, and the level of care that people who work there put into their efforts to meet these requirements. If the plant’s operators were truly rogue as you say in your response than the NRC would have shut them down decades ago. This is not the 70′s, and nuclear power plants are not run like that. Please read up on it, the code of federal regulations that must be met are posted on the NRC’s website, while everyone is entitled to their opinion, mine is that if you are going to post a comment or an article, at least educate yourself first. Your comments are baseless and truly unfounded. You need to read up on the law, for it very clearly spells out what needs to be done, and what will occur if those requirements are not met. Vermont Yankee has continuously attempted to exceed the requirements of the law in order to put at ease the local population, and to prove that they have the best interests of not only the company but the public, and comments like yours that have not been researched but are based on hearsay serve only to fan the flames of the uniformed.

]]> By: Peter Alexander http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/after-the-trial-vermont-yankee-and-entergy/#comment-1452 Peter Alexander Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:16:05 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=5812#comment-1452 Isn't the real question here whether or not a state legislature has the power to grant or withhold the ability of a corporation to do business in the state? Entergy has proven itself to be an unreliable and untrustworthy "corporate citizen"--lying to regulators and the legislature alike; and as this article points out, Entergy is also a bad manager: for years we have seen that instead of using good preventive maintenance the company operates on a "run it until it breaks" philosophy. The state has more than ample reason to not want this rogue corporation operating a nuclear power plan (or anything else) in its borders. But is it possible that this, or any other corporation is so powerful that it can do anything it wants no matter what the state says? The argument sounds absurd, but that's what Entergy's attorneys are demanding. Isn’t the real question here whether or not a state legislature has the power to grant or withhold the ability of a corporation to do business in the state? Entergy has proven itself to be an unreliable and untrustworthy “corporate citizen”–lying to regulators and the legislature alike; and as this article points out, Entergy is also a bad manager: for years we have seen that instead of using good preventive maintenance the company operates on a “run it until it breaks” philosophy. The state has more than ample reason to not want this rogue corporation operating a nuclear power plan (or anything else) in its borders. But is it possible that this, or any other corporation is so powerful that it can do anything it wants no matter what the state says? The argument sounds absurd, but that’s what Entergy’s attorneys are demanding.

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