Last week, a leak caused one of the cooling towers at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to collapse. Half the plant shut down. Yesterday, an automatic safety switch triggered the shutdown of the rest of the plant. This is a major nuclear accident, and no one is covering it. Why can't we read about it in the newspapers? The plant is currently up for NRC license renewals, and they are claiming the accident should not be considered.

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Vermont Yankee "scrammed"-automatically shut down Thursday, Aug 30th in the afternoon. The most dangerous time for a nuke is when it is starting up or shutting down; when something goes wrong, the reactor trips to stop any cascading events. VY had the highest rate of reactor scrams in the country in the 1990's. I believe that Indian Point in NY now holds the record- another Entergy reactor and part of its dubious flag ship. What's interesting is NRC's decision to look at the tower fiasco as part of relicensing. Entergy is of course objecting since the towers are on the "cool" side of the reactor complex and do not involve radioactivity. It is not under NRC's regulations- so says Entergy. These problems are created by Entergy's lack of maintenance of the reactor complex. Why is Entergy doing this? Because it can.

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Submitter: Josh Mitteldorf

Submitters Bio:

Josh Mitteldorf, de-platformed senior editor at OpEdNews, blogs on aging at http://JoshMitteldorf.ScienceBlog.com. Read how to stay young at http://AgingAdvice.org.

Educated to be an astrophysicist, he has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas, including evolutionary ecology and economics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an avid amateur pianist, and father of two adopted Chinese girls, now grown. He travels to Beijing each year to work with a lab studying the biology of aging. His book on the subject is "Cracking the Aging Code", http://tinyurl.com/y7yovp87.