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The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant has been under attack for several years by a concerted, organized effort to force it to shut down. One of frequently employed tactics has been to widely publicize and repeatedly mention any event that puts the plant in a bad light. The tactic of repetition imposes...

Source: WCAX.com (January 26, 2011) IBM warns lawmakers about the loss of Vt. Yankee Vermont is one of the lucky places where a mature nuclear power plant provides a significant portion of the electrical power. Unfortunately, Vermont leaders are acting a bit like a spoiled heir that has no idea...

Vermont Tiger is running a fascinating series of revealing articles written by Rob Roper. The articles focus on Peter Shumlin, the President Pro Tem of Vermont's Senate and a leading candidate as Vermont's next governor, and his intriguing relationships with David Blittersdorf, the Vermont Public...

The Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Greg Jaczko, has scheduled a one day trip to Vermont for today, July 14, 2010. As you may or may not know, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has been under a focused attack by people who want it shut down at the end of its current operating license...

There was a time when I lived in a large western state famous for producing a wide variety of fruits and nuts - both literally in their large agricultural sector and figuratively in their sadly amusing political sector. Since I was only a temporary California resident while attending graduate school...

There are some people who have the ability to turn almost any conversation about fantasy futures into a "boring" discussion involving honest numbers, real physics, material limitations and chemical equations. They are the geeky types who just do not know how to have fun by spinning tales involving...

Morgan Lewis & Bockius has produced a report that concluded that Entergy employees did not lie or intend to mislead investigators. Several employees have been punished anyway and there is a chance that a reliable plant that produces more than $100 million worth of electricity per year without any...

Matthew Wald published a column in the Green Inc. portion of the New York Times on April 20, 2010 titled Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium? . As many of you know, I get have been irked by the way that the industry and the federal regulators have not adequately helped the public to understand just...

On Monday, April 12, 2010, Entergy hosted a public information meeting in Brattleboro, VT about the tritium leak at Vermont Yankee and the actions taken to find and stop the leak. The meeting was set up like a science fair or trade show, with booths and posters with informative displays and knowledgeable...

It is going to be a short post - I was up way too late last night watching a scrappy little college team take one of the elite programs in all of college basketball all the way to the wire in the National Championship game. Congratulations to both teams for an excellent game. The report commissioned...

Once again, the forces that are bound and determined to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and remove its 620 MW of reliable (90% capacity factor) electricity from the competitive supply of electricity in New England have found another hook. The incredibly detailed analysis that is being...

Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Several weeks ago, Vermont Senate President Peter Shumlin called a vote of the Vermont Senate on whether or not to give the Public Service Commission permission to issue a certificate of public good for the continued operation of Vermont Yankee...

A good friend asked me the title question for this blog during the week. The question intrigued me enough to encourage some digging and computations. I would be interested in any questions that you have about the assumptions. Based on reading a number of different articles and checking through the...

As a sworn defender of the Constitution of the United States, I believe in the importance of making decisions at the right level. Our Constitution does a wonderful job of assigning limited powers to the federal government while reserving the remaining powers to states and individuals. There is healthy...

The Vermont Department of Health has a well organized page detailing the results of the search for the source(s) of tritiated water leaks at Vermont Yankee . It includes regular updates, site maps and detailed sample results. Based on an update dated March 5, 2010, a remotely operated pipe inspecting...

In an long delayed effort to prove to Vermont legislators that they are taking action to correct leakage of mildly radioactive water into the ground under the buildings that house Vermont Yankee, Energy as announced that they have disciplined 11 senior employees , five of whom have been removed from...

I came across an interesting statement in an article titled "Coal Industry Review" written by Alfred T. Wells, Jr. and published in the September-October 1964 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal. (I know, I need to find some more interesting hobbies besides digging through ancient magazine...

During the 2010 State of the Union Address, President Obama took the handcuffs off of the nuclear industry revival when he said: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power...

Several of my regular sources of information about the happenings associated with nuclear energy, including John Wheeler's This Week In Nuclear and Meredith Angwin's Yes Vermont Yankee have published stories about the recent flurry of news regarding the discovery of tritium in ground water on...

A frequent contributor to the discussion threads here on Atomic Insights shared the following observation about the battle over Vermont Yankee. I think it deserves more attention than it will get buried in a separate commenting system. I would be interested in hearing from you; especially if you have...

This morning I saw a couple of Twitter posts from friends who write about nuclear energy. They linked to a site called I am Vermont Yankee . The site is compelling. It uses readily available web tools and a clean, easy to navigate interface to help you find short video clips of Vermont Yankee employees...

This morning I discovered a new blog for nuclear energy called Yes Vermont Yankee . It is published by Meredith Angwin, a woman who has provided the following information about her background in the energy industry: No. I am Meredith Angwin, a physical chemist. I have worked most of my life for the power...