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Entergy: Yankee leaked radioactive water:

Entergy: Yankee leaked radioactive water

Rutland Herald By Susan Smallheer Herald Staff – Published: January 8, 2009

BRATTLEBORO — A valve leaking radioactive water inside Vermont Yankee’s reactor building was undergoing emergency repairs Wednesday, Entergy Nuclear said…………………News of the leak prompted a longtime Vermont Yankee critic to say the leak was just the latest in a long line of leaks at the 37-year-old reactor and another indication that Entergy and the NRC was not managing the aging problems at the plant.

“Sounds like another Bondo and duct-tape job,” said Raymond Shadis, senior technical adviser to the New England Coalition, who noted that nuclear power plants had thousands of valves.

“They’ve had many problems at Vermont Yankee with leaky valves,” said Shadis, noting the portion of the system that sprung a leak in the reactor building wasn’t in the crucial safety systems at the plant.

But Shadis said that any leak at a nuclear plant was cause for concern.

“It’s an indication of a declining, deteriorating situation,” he said.

Entergy: Yankee leaked radioactive water: Rutland Herald Online

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January 9, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY