Leaking Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant shutdown ordered

[jpak]

http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/leaking-vermont-yankee-nuclear-power-plant-shutdown-ordered-as-obama-pledges-50-billion-for-nuclear-power/

In the depths of a near-Depression, the Vermont Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for health and safety over jobs and tax revenue when it chose not to renew Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s operating license when it expires in 2012. Unless Entergy, the plant’s owner, can stop the leaks of radioactive tritium, the 26-4 vote means the plant will shut down in March 2012, taking 650 jobs and $9 million in tax revenue with it.

Vermont Yankee is a 38-year-old decaying nuclear reactor running flat out at 120 percent of capacity in Vernon, Vermont. It is about 30 miles north of Mount Holyoke College. A few miles further south are Amherst College and hundreds of other colleges and prep schools.

Millions of people are within its range. Should Vermont Yankee lose enough coolant to expose the glowing uranium core to air, it catches on fire and the hydrogen gas manufactured normally in the reactor explodes.

Vermont Yankee is sitting on top of its own outhouse-toilet-in-the-woods, a 100m by 50m by 9m (m = meter, or about 39 inches) underground “lake” of highly radioactive reactor coolant vigorously pumped there by Vermont Yankee itself already.

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[NNadir]

1. Another victory for the dangerous fossil fuel industry. None of the people who caused

this anti-science disaster will give a fuck about the people killed by this moral disaster, by the dangerous fossil fuel waste which actually kills people.

Ignorance kills.

[jpak]

2. Booo hooo hoo

:rofl:

:hi:

[NNadir]

4. I'm sure the gas industry, which owns the state of Maine - I suspect we have some owners of gas

and oil stocks here -is an excellent example of Vermont's future.

When Maine shut it's largest supply of climate change gas free energy out of vast scientific ignorance and illiteracy, millions of tons of dangeorus fossil fuel waste was dumped indiscriminately into earth's atmosphere, the Maine fossil fuel waste dump:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept05me.xls

Vermont is the only state in the union that is close to be climate change gas free, but that will change, as our gas fronts - who lie and lie and lie and lie about their intent by fraudulent representations with their emporer's new clothes about their failed solar and wind industry -

I have always understood that the anti-nukes are indifferent to climate change. After all, almost all of them are gas, oil and coal owned and operated and funded.

What is annoying about them, is that while they don't give a fuck about climate change, they lie about it, crying crocodile tears about climate change while working to destroy the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy.

I'm sure that many of our brats here, living off trust funds, producing nothing worthwhile, will see their gas stock portfolios grow.

People will die. The ground cap rock in North America will be pulverized by the gas industry, and the greedy creeps responsible for this disaster will sit around and giggle insipidly.

Fortunately the President of the United States and the Secretary of Energy are fighting the anti-nukes and their murderous ignorance, but it is probably too late.

Have a nice denialist day, and ask your Mom to increase the gas futures portfolio.

[jpak]

6. The gas industry doesn't own the State of Maine - there are no gas wells here

and Maine produces MORE electricity from renewables than from natural gas.

Unlike Nuclear-New-Jersey-Which-Is-A-Fraud.

Does your Mommy know about the fictitious New Jersey molten salt breeder?

Well does she?

:rofl:

[wtmusic]

3. Vermonters for Cancer will be ecstatic about this. nt

[wtmusic]

5. Imagine a future powered by 100% natural maple syrup

and you will be invoking all of the common sense used to reach this decision.

[jpak]

7. If it's contaminated with tritium from Vermont Yankee, it can't be sold

nuclear power

:thumbsdown:

[wtmusic]

8. There's tritium-contaminated syrup on those pancakes you're eating right now

from atomic testing in the 50s-60s.

Better step in a closet, and see if you're glowing yet. :scared:

[jpak]

9. Ummm...tritium has a half-life of 12.3 years and most of that is gone - decayed or washed to sea

Unlike the DEADLY tritium leakage from the suckage that is Vermont Yankee....

:rofl:

[wtmusic]

10. Deadly? Has anything, anywhere died from tritium contamination?

Pray, do tell. *crickets*

[jpak]

11. Yes - DEADLY!!!111

:rofl:

[wtmusic]

12. Still waiting.

Maybe your little rofl dude could get off his ass and google for you, since you're too lazy.

[jpak]

13. IT'S DEADLY!!111

:rofl:

[wtmusic]

14. It's with utmost pleasure

I welcome you to ignore, where many finer than you have tread before.

Your idiotic aversion to truth, your tenuous grip on science, your....eh, I'm bored.

:hi:

[kristopher]

15. Do you remember posting the information about how safe nuclear was?

The post where you cited a blog that compared the fatalities of different energy sources by deaths/kwh?

since you never replied after we examined the claims in that site, I was wondering just how you arrive at your "science" based conclusions? That piece was filled with overt, unambiguous false data and equally overt, unambiguous false reasoning with the false data.

I've really wondered why you declined to discuss the "science" that you claimed was provided by that so called analysis....

Do you remember? I can refresh your memory if you'd like.

[jpak]

16. you can ignore me, but not the Deadly Threat of Dangerous Deadly Tritium

I have actually worked with Dangerous Deadly Tritium - have you?

...and if Dangerous Deadly Tritium was "safe" then there would be no objection to say letting nuclear facilities contaminate local drinking water with Dangerous Deadly Tritium - or atmospheric nuclear testing (which produces Dangerous Deadly Tritium) ..or letting the public purchase Dangerous Deadly Tritium without an NRC license.

This is why the state of Vermont voted to SHUT IT DOWN.

cuz it's DEADLY!!!11

:rofl:

[upi402]

17. Somebody alert Team Obama

and the pro-nuke asshats here spamming DU with their propaganda.