New radiation monitors to be installed at Yankee

Folks, Entergy did not innocently forget to install radiation monitors. There was no question in their minds that between the uprate and the dry cask units that they were going to exceed radiation levels at the fenceline.

Doesn't it seem a little odd that they would randomly start buying up land and houses around the site. Their plan from the beginning was to jack up this aged plant and run it forever and/or into the ground.

The Whoops excuse just doesn't wash. They should have been hit with a huge fine for this so-called mistake and the money handed over to the American Cancer Society.

33 states have at least one licensed / Operating Independent Spent Fuel Stroage Installation. 15 licenses are site specific and 39 are general licenses. http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/l...

In response to the above post: And yet cancer rates in Windham County remain the lowest in the state. And yet Vermont at 20 mrem, has the lowest millirem per year limmit in the entire country. The NRC annual dose limit is 100 mrem. Moving a fence line does not imply guilt, nor does it imply that the monitors will be moved back as well. What it does do is ensur that protesters are kept far enough back to limmit their impact on daily operations of the plant. What it does do is ensure an extended parimiter around the plant to increase security.

Entergy has been buying up land in front of the plant for many many years. It didnt JUST start. The proof is in the numbers, and the fenceline dose went DOWN the year after the casks were installed. The monitoring that wasn't done did not change anything with the fenceline monitoring. If there was a dose increase in the immediate area of the casks it would have shown up on the fenceline dose, and again the dose WENT DOWN at the fenceline. It is so interesting to listen to anti-nukes rant and rave, but then when you look at the facts it doesnt back up their position. They use a ton of scare tactics, which either the facts prove wrong or there are no facts to prove (for example that Entergy will walk away from their financial resposiblity of decommissioning the plant.)

What-Me-Worry wrote:

Folks, Entergy did not innocently forget to install radiation monitors. There was no question in their minds that between the uprate and the dry cask units that they were going to exceed radiation levels at the fenceline.
Doesn't it seem a little odd that they would randomly start buying up land and houses around the site. Their plan from the beginning was to jack up this aged plant and run it forever and/or into the ground.
The Whoops excuse just doesn't wash. They should have been hit with a huge fine for this so-called mistake and the money handed over to the American Cancer Society.

Remember, this is now a Obama’s show, the NRC is stacked with Obama appointees and a democratic congress and house. If nothing changes something is fishy. You could consider every act of the NRC as coming from the pen of Obama.

hmmmm wrote:

It is so interesting to listen to anti-nukes rant and rave, but then when you look at the facts it doesnt back up their position.

Funny, that's exactly what people usually say about the pro-nuke blowhards.

It is very sad that you anti everything people do not spend you time bitc*ing finding ways to educate yourselves. There is 35 years of hundreds of thousands of home energy sitting in a pool that would fit inside the footprint of most of your houses. I have been to coal plants before. Thirty-five years of coal for the same amount of energy would cover the entire earth and be deep enough to reach the moon. There is no other power source that will safely provide base load power to all of your electtric cars as nuclear does. I know you are biased and will never change your opinion so say what you wish, but you all sound ignorant.

Well if you look at my post above NCW, that is backed up by facts. It is a FACT that the fenceline dose this last year was lower then the year before. This fact is backed up by the states TLD measurements at the fencline. It is also a fact that so far this year the fenceline dose is down. It is a proven FACT that VY began buying property around the plant before the dry casks were installed. This fact is backed up in the town land records. You can throw sling, but my statements are backed up by fact. Unlike the 1st post where he/she posted something as fact that is not backed up by the states monitoring records.

What-Me-Worry wrote:

Folks, Entergy did not innocently forget to install radiation monitors. There was no question in their minds that between the uprate and the dry cask units that they were going to exceed radiation levels at the fenceline.
Doesn't it seem a little odd that they would randomly start buying up land and houses around the site. Their plan from the beginning was to jack up this aged plant and run it forever and/or into the ground.
The Whoops excuse just doesn't wash. They should have been hit with a huge fine for this so-called mistake and the money handed over to the American Cancer Society.

What is your proof for these wild claims. I am betting you have none. I believe you are just string the pot.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

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Remember, this is now a Obama’s show, the NRC is stacked with Obama appointees and a democratic congress and house. If nothing changes something is fishy. You could consider every act of the NRC as coming from the pen of Obama.

What are you trying to say?

He is just ranting. Normally doesn't have anything to really say. Just wants to talk. When he does actually have something to say it is some conspiracy theory he has concocted.

I am telling you we are on a historic breathtaking transition period, Obama has been given a very rare opportunity, the music is playing and the commissioners are playing musical chairs. Everyone is circling around the chairs waiting for the music to stop.

There is five NRC appointees, Obama has just appointed two new NRC commissioners, they are awaiting senate conformation, ex chainman Klein is stepping down soon. Within a period of months he is going to appoint three of the five commissioners. It is shockingly historic in the nuclear industry.

The nuclear industry is in shell shock and everyone is predicting they will be suffering from PTSD for the next 6 years.

I will say it again; we are in for a breath taking transition of the NRC.

Two year out from today we will consider 2009 the bad old years.

Two years out from today we will consider 2009 the bad old years.

Did some of these "new" monitors come from Chernobyl or are they new. they say any monitor that works is better than a new on out of the box that has no service record just a guarantee and made in china?

It sounds like a asset protection or risk protection operation...image if a anti nuke bought a abutting property near Vermont Yankee. There is a bunch of issues with the smell of biocides, noise and just plain security...imagine if a abutter started making public complaints. It is just a risk mitigation operation.

I mean, between the current NRC and nuclear industry....we are dealing with the same mind numbing stupidity as General Motors...the status quo.

Why imagine? Why doesn't Mike Mulligan simply get each of his thousands of anti-nuke buddies to chip in a few bucks and become abutters? Because it's all noise. Blah, blah, blah.

I certainly would have played the game a little different that anti nuclear intelligentsia.

Believe me, the nukes like me better than the anti’s.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

It sounds like a asset protection or risk protection operation...image if a anti nuke bought a abutting property near Vermont Yankee. There is a bunch of issues with the smell of biocides, noise and just plain security...imagine if a abutter started making public complaints. It is just a risk mitigation operation.

Check this out:
A new generation of biocides for control of crustacea in fish farms.
Center for research in energy and the environment, The Robert Bordon University.

I don’t get it, we didn’t have had any salmon heading north past the dilapidated turners falls dam.

That dam could do more damage than VY....it is in horrible shape?

You can cover there mouths but that doesn't stop their agenda. Do any anti-nuke nuts live out side the " OMG " safety zone or is a mandatory they have to live under the shadows of the cooling towers so when they get up there reminded of the mission. recently because the rentals in the zone were full so they [in their minds]increased the size by adding sirens in the woods to make them feel better and bother more people and hope it drives them across the cause at anything and any one expense to cost you all based on who?? movie chyn-asser jane fonda of ruining this country