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 Tip of the hat to Nuclear Free Vermont's, Ed Anthes.
Right on the heels of the Brattleboro selectboard intervenor status discussion, Reuters reports another leak was found at ENVY's reactor building in Vernon this morning.
According to Scott DiSavino, of Reuters,
"Entergy Corp planned to work on a leaking valve gasket on a four-inch pipe in the reactor building at the 620-megawatt Vermont Yankee nuclear power station in the next few days, the company said in an email.
The company did not say whether the work would require an output reduction or a shutdown of the reactor. It was operating at full power early Wednesday, according to a report by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Company officials were not available to comment."
Reuters continues.
"The company said the work involved enclosing the valve with a specially designed clamp and injecting sealant to stop the leak.
The company said it decided to fix the valve now, rather than wait until the next refueling outage, based on a conservative operating philosophy.
The last refueling outage occurred in October and November. As the unit is on an 18-month refueling cycle, electricity traders said the next refuel would likely occur in spring 2010."
To read the rest of the story click here.
So the next question now is, how many more times are people going to ask, "what next?" Have we asked that enough already
Stay tuned for more coverage I'm sure.
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and I could not help to notice that on the same page was a commentary on another breaking story dealing with failed regulatory agency, the SEC.
"Why did the SEC fail in Madoff case?"
Mark T Williams
"The SEC needs to adopt a “where there is smoke there is fire” approach. It must become risk focused in the scope and frequency of its monitoring and surveillance operations." Commentary
The "funny" thing of course, is that being "risk focused" is what Federal Regulatory agencies have all been failing to do.
FEMA with Katrina
SEC with Bernie
and
NASA with two space shuttle crews.
I am not saying that the mere occurrence of a tragic event is in and of itself proof of failure of regulators.
Accidents do happen.
But each agency has stated that there were failures of regulation.
Hind site of course bestows powers of observation that can make the observers and analysts seem incredibly wise.
But because the stakes are so high, it makes one wonder what whether we just waiting to hear similarly wise analysts explain exactly how something so catastrophic as a major nuclear plant failure was allowed to occur when so much "smoke" indicated that there was a "fire".
Here's hoping we just have a completely financially insane investment in nuclear power and nuclear waste to look forward to, and not ruined lives,ruined property values, and wise hind site analysis.
Rolf
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