Vermont Yankee gets OK to hike its power

[midnight armadillo]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/03/03/vermont_yankee_gets_ok_to_hike_its_power?mode=PF

Vermont Yankee gets OK to hike its power

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | March 3, 2006

WASHINGTON -- After what it described as the most extensive review of its kind, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday approved a 20 percent power increase for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

The regulatory commission said the 100-megawatt increase in electricity output, called an ''uprate," will be done ''in small increments while NRC staff closely monitor the process."

Entergy Corp. of New Orleans, which operates Vermont Yankee, in Vernon, Vt., on the Connecticut River, had sought permission for the increase since 2003, and the commission's approval had been expected.

More at link.....

[NNadir]

1. Everybody in Vermont will die.

[Odin2005]

2. This is bad why?

:shrug:

[NNadir]

5. Because life contains risks. If it didn't everyone would be immortal.

The risk of being killed in an oil war is still infinitely higher than dying in a nuclear accident in the United States, as is the risk of driving a car, as is the risk of dying from hanging out in smoky bars as is the risk of eating fatty foods and being overweight.

The working in a skyscraper 110 stories tall is higher than the risk of being killed in a nuclear power accident.

The risk of being killed by a toilet bowl, even if the toilet bowl is hooked up to a cool biogas digester described in lots of internet links, is experimentally infinitity times higher than the risk of being killed by a nuclear accident:

http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?Id=1468

In fact, something gets everyone.

But somehow, even though there has yet to be one death from a nuclear accident in the United States - people are "concerned" about nuclear accidents. This is because people are idiots. It's a good thing people are not immortal. Some of us are too stupid to live.

In fact, as shown in figure 10, http://www.externe.info/expoltec.pdf there is no such thing as risk free energy. There is only risk minimized energy. That energy is nuclear energy.



By the way, everyone in the Republic of the Congo will die too, albeit quicker. They don't have nuclear power plants in the Congo.

;-)

[midnight armadillo]

3. Not just Vermont

...but probably everyone in NH & MA too. :nuke: :crazy:

[jpak]

4. They just might....

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2004/2004-10-18-03.asp

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