Good work by Mark Flanagan
Slashdot ran a story today called “Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak,” and found that the link took us over to Beyond Nuclear. Well, that was that. While some anti-nuclear groups are worth engaging with, Beyond Nuclear is, how shall we say, not. Dishonest and amateurish in its approach, the group has never required much comment from us: our readers – any interested readers – could see through its stuff as though it were made of cheap plastic.
But we did make a note to revisit Slashdot and see if at least some of its readership might be accepting this hooey. Nope.
First, the quote, “Numerous incidents of unplanned releases of radioactivity have been reported to the NRC within the past few months.” “These incidents of leaks, overflows and spills have resulted in contamination of areas outside of plant buildings. ” is not actually in the article but rather it is in the link from the NRC in 1979 about responding to the leaks. The article then goes on the say “the NRC is capitulating to an industry decision to take almost three more years before announcing an action plan” but the link supporting this is broken, so I can’t evaluate it.
That’s from electricprof. See what we mean about amateurish?
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