Entergy is actively peddling the aging Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The rumors Vermont Public Service Commissioner David O’Brien mentioned last week have proven to be true. According to reportsEntergy will make an announcement this week. Officials at VY didn’t respond but David O’Brien, continuing his policy of active public commentary on Vermont Yankee offered up his assessment of the value of the aging plant. David O’Brien is proving Entergy Louisiana’s most active broker,real estate agent or simply a nuclear used car salesman.
He stresses the NRC’s rating of the plant he never mentions the condition of the plant. At the same time he fails to mention why this sale is in the interest of the people of Vermont and turns a blind eye to leaking under ground pipes, a tritium plume and the dangerously under funded decommissioning fund that may leave taxpayer footing the bill.
What does Commissioner David O’Brien see as the largest hurdle to the sale of Vermont Yankee? He does note one environmental problem surrounding the sale.
He said its biggest liability is the political environment in a state with a powerful anti-nuclear movement and where the incoming governor and key legislators are longtime critics of it.
"Certainly the political environment that's developed in recent years in Vermont is a cause for concern for any potential bidder," O'Brien said. "That's real. That I would say is the largest hurdle" to a sale.
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