Entergy?
No it's not a Typo ... Nor a new form of 'Green Energy'.
"Entergy" is a Nuclear Energy Corporation operating Vermont.
And according to VT Senator Bernie Sanders:
In April, Entergy, a $14 billion dollar corporation that operates 12 nuclear power facilities, filed a lawsuit against the state [of Vermont] claiming its attempt to forbid continued operation of the plant past March 21, 2012, infringes on the federal jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Entergy is seeking a preliminary injunction which would prevent the state of Vermont from shutting the plant down until a final decision of the lawsuit has been resolved.
Incredible. The State of Vermont decided they want to get rid of their outdated and dangerous Nuclear Power Plant, and go switch to Renewals ...
-- And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says
"Unh, unh, ahh! ... Not So Fast Vermonters. We've got powerful friends in DC ... And besides these past expiration-date Plants are Safe. Just Trust Us."
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What possibly, could go wrong, with this picture?
What? Is NRC is the new 'star chamber', complete with rubber stamps license extensions, and secret votes, and industry lawyers?
NRC Sides With Entergy in Vermont Plant Debate, Sanders Says
by Simon Lomax, bloomberg -- Jun 16, 2011
The five-member U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3-2 yesterday in a non-public session to ask the Justice Department “to get involved in that fight,” Sanders said today at a Senate hearing in Washington. State officials want to close Entergy’s Vermont Yankee plant and the NRC shouldn’t get involved, said Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats.
“It is not your business to tell the people of Vermont to keep open a nuclear plant they do not want,” Sanders said at the hearing, where all five NRC commissioners were witnesses.
While the NRC has approved a 20-year license extension for the plant, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, and state lawmakers want to close it next year. Entergy filed a lawsuit against Shumlin and state officials in April to keep the plant open.
It's not like the 'Vermont Yankee' Nuclear Plant, hasn't had its problems. It kind of goes with the territory.
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We've Almost Lost Nebraska
by harveywasserman, DailyKos -- Jun 29, 2011
In recent years VY [Vermont Yankee] has spewed tritium into groundwater and the Connecticut River, in some cases from underground pipes whose existence the company denied. A cooling tower has collapsed.
Drive a car for 100,000 miles, and you can start expecting some serious repair bills. Mechanical parts eventually wear out. Nuclear Plants are no different -- except they are MUCH harder pull into the mechanic's shop.
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The "good news" is that the DOJ has declined to side with Entergy Corp ... so far ...
DOJ Won't Intervene in Entergy Suit
by Josh Stilts, Brattleboro Reformer -- July 1, 2011
BRATTLEBORO, VT - Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he learned Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has no plans to intervene in Entergy's lawsuit against the state of Vermont at this time.
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"Last year, by a strong 26-4 bipartisan vote, the Vermont state Senate voted not to renew the license for the 40-year-old, problem plagued Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant," Sanders told the Reformer. "Both federal law as well as an agreement struck between the state and Entergy, when that company purchased Vermont Yankee in 2002, makes it abundantly clear that the state of Vermont has the right to shut that plant down."
Entergy's lawsuit against the state isn't about safety, it's about the state's economy and what the future of its energy solutions should be.
"It would be absolutely wrong and inappropriate for the DOJ to intervene in this case on the side of Entergy," he said. " This is not their area, this isn't a question about safety. This is about the energy future of Vermont."
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Here's an idea, if Nuclear Corporations continue to insist on "squeezing every last drop of juice" out of their aging, creeky, old clunkers ...
Then those very same Nuclear Corporations should have to pick up their own Liability Insurance on those shelf-life-expired "Steam Engines" of theirs ...
-- and quit sticking the American People with the Final Costs and the Damages, if ever their Steam Engines, go Ka-Pluulie ... like Engines always will ultimately do.
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If Nuclear Power Plants were such a great bet, wouldn't Wall Street "be all in" on that action?
I guess, THEY know a clunker when they see one:
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Entergy?
No it's not a Typo ... Nor a new form of 'Green Energy'.
It's just a long-shot bet on the Future of Boiling Water in America. To that very last Drop.
That's All Folks! See ya!