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Nuclear company was ‘purveying misinformation’

at the least, the company was guilty of purveying misinformation.………Did the underground system of pipes ever get a look? How can the plant be called safe if it didn’t? How vulnerable are the pipes? Is Vermont’s groundwater in danger? Why did everyone overlook the pipes in the first place?

Pressure builds: Rutland Herald Online January 17, 2010 The revelation that the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has been leaking radioactive tritium from underground pipes whose existence had not been revealed to safety inspectors and state officials is a significant blow to the hopes of Yankee’s owners that the Legislature might be willing to extend the plant’s license.

The Department of Public Service, which has supported license extension, is re-evaluating its position, according to Deputy Commissioner Stephen Wark. Commissioner David O’Brien said there was no evidence that Entergy Nuclear, the owner of the plant, had lied intentionally about the underground pipes, but that, at the least, the company was guilty of purveying misinformation……….

Legislators were skeptical about Entergy’s claim that the failure to reveal the existence of a system of underground pipes carrying radioactive liquid was merely an oversight. “………

Did the underground system of pipes ever get a look? How can the plant be called safe if it didn’t? How vulnerable are the pipes? Is Vermont’s groundwater in danger? Why did everyone overlook the pipes in the first place?

Pressure builds: Rutland Herald Online

January 18, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive