tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post1194803639182003170..comments2023-04-07T05:19:44.951-04:00Comments on Yes Vermont Yankee: A Jaczko RetrospectiveMeredith Angwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-7780188230465369072010-08-04T09:57:09.410-04:002010-08-04T09:57:09.410-04:00Thanks to everyone for their comments!
Feed Burne...Thanks to everyone for their comments!<br /><br />Feed Burner. I agree with much of what you say, but I hope that Jaczko had some plan in mind as the purpose of the meeting. My supposition is that his plan was to listen, but make it clear that the NRC followed its own policies, not whatever statement an opponent group makes.<br /><br />Also, Jaczko should have spent more time doing this, if he was going to do it at all. There were seven people there, each with a separate agenda, If each spoke for ten minutes, then Jaczko and back-and-forth conversation and final statements would have about...twenty minutes total. That is pretty much what happened, and it felt very rushed.<br /><br />Anonymous. Your post assumes that Jaczko wanted to hear critiques of the NRC, and therefore, those in favor of the plant would not have critiques, so they were not invited. Of course, like most people, I have critiques of the NRC...but they are probably not the critiques you would have! I think that the whole thing about "well, we don't interfere with plants talking to their state-level regulators" was a bit much, considering that the NRC had information about pipes and the state wanted that info. The NRC could have given the info directly to the state, or given the plant a heads-up on the fact that some statements they made to the state were incorrect. <br /><br />On the other hand, why didn't the state ask the NRC? From my viewpoint there is blame on both sides. <br /><br />Still and all. I was a researcher, not a bureaucrat. Researchers want other people to see their results and critique and improve the results, while bureaucrats are famous for having agendas about protecting their info and their turf. So what do I know about who is to blame on this?! What I know is fairly simple: a more open dialog could have saved a LOT of trouble, IMHO.<br /><br />Mike. I did notice you heckling Jaczko. I didn't like it. If all of us who were excluded from the table (including me) heckled the man, the meeting would have been a shambles, and I prefer that meetings be civil. I thank you, though, for commenting on this blog.Meredith Angwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-18652625863440549742010-08-04T09:25:31.451-04:002010-08-04T09:25:31.451-04:00Remember me heckling the Chairman with the truth.....Remember me heckling the Chairman with the truth...I said how many times in the roundtable, “remember the HB Robinson nuclear plant (accident).<br /><br />Now we got VY and the million gal leaker Susquehanna?Mike Mulliganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06503388974475495672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-59417180934032723172010-08-04T06:02:36.290-04:002010-08-04T06:02:36.290-04:00Since most people schooled in antinuclear interven...Since most people schooled in antinuclear intervenor doctrine hold it as a first principle that NRC is "in the pocket" of the licensees, Mr. Jaczko could not have picked up much real information aside from partisan anti-NRC myth. Were he to desire a schooling in that myth, he need only peruse the NCI, UCS, CAN,or NIRS websites, where most of it originates. Seeing as the Vermont situation is outside his agency's purview (for the moment), and in the hands of well funded political forces, his meeting was a non-event.<br /><br />Try to recall that VY was well within the NRC rules, when the tritium wells were dug as a proactive pro-public investigational move by Entergy.Everything after the Blanch/Gundersen myth-telling is purest self serving cult-hype.<br /><br />Your body, and every living being's body, contain tritium. Just because it can be detected, does not make it harmful. Near a seafood store, I would expect to smell fish. At a gas station, I would expect to see oil stains. In Vermont, I would expect to see flannel shirts. At VY, I would expect some tritium.<br /><br />I recall standing at the Governor Hunt mansion in Vernon, and smelling the distinct odor of cow manure, wafting in from the surrounding farms.It's unpleasant, and would make me sick were I to rub it all over my hands, but if you want milk, you gotta have cow manure.<br /><br />If you desire a Vermont with no infrastructure, no industry, no economy, and no affinity for technology, you better get busy digging outhouses & cutting firewood.FEED BURNERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801933848163990121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-5730763083911568082010-08-03T17:26:51.852-04:002010-08-03T17:26:51.852-04:00I've been thinking that there is at least one ...I've been thinking that there is at least one reasonable possibility as to why the NRC Chairman met with anti-Vermont Yankee Nuclear organization representatives. At the bottom, he was seeking constructive criticism of his agency's performance. Honestly, have you given the issue some thought? Have you ever offerred a critical evaluation in all of the public fora that we've seen since entergy came to town? What sort of critique do you suppose the Vermont Energy Partnership would have offerred? If it were to be substantive and directed to actions within the purview of NRC, we haven't heard a comment like it from them yet. <br /><br />Thanks,<br />AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-87355657785469796922010-08-03T12:38:51.996-04:002010-08-03T12:38:51.996-04:00I've gone to more than my share of NRC meeting...I've gone to more than my share of NRC meetings. I find that by being "open" and over-polite, NRC has nurtured an agency-centered cult of exaggeration..... a cult that never gets a hearing, except from NRC. I've watched these perennial performers wear themselves out in New York state, where the phenom is old hat, with NY's media jaded, and actually beginning to do balanced reportage. From 2001 until 2010, the novelty of the sci-fi has staled up quite a bit, the ecofascisti are outed for what they are....troubled, malicious individuals on a tear to ban their own demons in the guise of everyone else's jobs, finances, and future prospects.Unfortunately, in Vermont, where the eccentricity demographic seems (to me) proportionately higher, the media relatively naive, & prone to issue pandering, this end game may never emerge. Vermont seems destined to imitate post-potato-famine Ireland, and populate other more vibrant places with its young people....becoming an organically unimpeachable old folks' home where nothing ever begins.....& everything just ends. Don't get me wrong, stagnation & quietude have their charms... but lead to just one place... a narrow niche, below ground.<br /><br />GMFEED BURNERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801933848163990121noreply@blogger.com