Toby Talbot/Associated Press
Onlookers cheered when lawmakers
voted to shut the Vermont Yankee
reactor in 2012.
At Vermont Yankee, a nuclear reactor on the ropes, the search for a tritium leak that may doom the plant is proceeding as quickly as possible — which is to say, at a painstaking pace.
Over the last few weeks, in the buildup to a vote Wednesday in which the State Senate approved shutting down the plant, engineers have been digging well after well here in an exploratory strategy that evokes the child’s game of Battleship. At each spot, workers measure the level of radioactive tritium found in the water in the hope of triangulating their way to the source of the contamination.
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Finding and fixing the leak would be a first step toward rebuilding the plant’s credibility — crucial if the owner, the Louisiana-based nuclear company Entergy, is to persuade lawmakers to reverse their decision to force the plant to close when its license expires in 2012.
Yeeeeah... so why are we spending any money at all on these things when coverage of their closure includes words like "leak" and "contamination" and "water"???
You never hear about solar panel leaks contaminating water supplies...
Seriously, can someone just be the grown-up and tell the rich kids with the nuclear-powered toys to go away, please?
Obama?
*Anyone?*
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