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 At the River Garden at 7pm on March 27, the Windham Regional Commission will take public input on the matter of Vermont Yankee's petition for a 20-year license extension.
While the relicensing process is chugging along, the NRC having declared the plant "good to go," there remain serious concerns about safety and regulation. For example:
- Why did the cooling tower collapse only 6 months after the latest safety inspection found it "safe?"
- Why is the state nuclear engineer, whose sole job is to provide the sort of oversight that would protect us from nuclear accident, not actually a nuclear engineer? What, couldn't they find a fully credentialed person?
- Why didn't the Public Service Board promptly release to either the public or the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel the report on the audit by the NRC's own Office of the Inspector General that found the NRC re-licensing process to be seriously lacking in integrity?
- Should Vermont Yankee actually be allowed to store high-level nuclear waste on a flood plain?
Please, everyone, if you're interested in matters of safety, come to the WRC meeting.
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This is from the memorandum of understanding with Vermont Public Service Board taken from:
www.evacuationplans.org/final-dps-envy-mou.pdf
"Location of DFS Pad. The Company will construct the DFS pad at a location set back at least 100 feet from the Connecticut River’s 500-year floodplain, as depicted in the Flood Insurance Rate Study and on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, both dated September 27, 1991, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the Town of Vernon, Vermont (the Floodplain”), in a location adjacent to the Company’s existing facilities within the Station’s Protected Area."
As to Mr. Vanags not being a nuclear engineer, perhaps the state doesn't pay enough. Nuclear engineers are in demand and can command high salaries.