Drill runs smoothly

[Go forward not back]

JohnD wrote:

GFNB, I have to tell you I don't have much sympathy for your whining.

Nor I for yours, believe me

JohnD wrote:

Whatever company owns Vermont Yankee owns the responsiblity for taking care of the decommissioning. If a new company takes over VY then they take that responsibility from Entergy the same as Entergy took the responsibility from who ever it was they bought VY for.

True - in principle. If the spinoff is just for show, however, allowing profits to continue to go upwards to Entergy while allowing Entergy to separate itself from the front company when the decom bills come due, that's a form of fraud, legal or otherwise.

JohnD wrote:

If Entergy (or some other company) decoms the plant you're gonna pay for it through your energy bills. If the state does it, then you pay for it through your taxes. Either way, you let them build a nuclear power plant and you keep them in business by continuing to buy the electricity they produced so you're gonna pay for the cost of decomming it just like you paid for the cost of building it. Suck it up.

Duh! The deal is that we're paying for decommissioning now through our electricity bills. If ENVY takes that money and then disappears behind a shell company when it's time to clean up, that's a ripoff - legal or otherwise.

JohnD wrote:

As for your statement with regards to the drill, are you saying that the plant has NEVER sounded those sirens since they came online? Or is it that everytime the plant has sounded it's sirens in the last 30 years the entire town has gone into the chaotic panic you predict?

Where do you live? They sound every month at a given hour. If they sounded at some other time (and people paid attention), that's when you'd expect the confusion.

[Koz]

Go forward not back wrote:

The UCS's credibility is impeccable.

Only to the ignorant, such as you.

[Elmer Fudd]

Go forward not back wrote:

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Nor I for yours, believe me
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True - in principle. If the spinoff is just for show, however, allowing profits to continue to go upwards to Entergy while allowing Entergy to separate itself from the front company when the decom bills come due, that's a form of fraud, legal or otherwise.
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Duh! The deal is that we're paying for decommissioning now through our electricity bills. If ENVY takes that money and then disappears behind a shell company when it's time to clean up, that's a ripoff - legal or otherwise.
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Where do you live? They sound every month at a given hour. If they sounded at some other time (and people paid attention), that's when you'd expect the confusion.

Yet another post you forgot to delete.

[surplus]

it's always about profit

[JohnD]

Go forward not back wrote:

True - in principle. If the spinoff is just for show, however, allowing profits to continue to go upwards to Entergy while allowing Entergy to separate itself from the front company when the decom bills come due, that's a form of fraud, legal or otherwise.

GFNB, that's just ignorant. You're essentially saying "If the spinoff company's a fraud then that's fraud." Yeah, duh. What evidence do you have the spinoff will be "just for show"? Or is this one of those guilty-until-proven-innocent-c ause-I-hate-nuclear things? <quoted text>Duh! The deal is that we're paying for decommissioning now through our electricity bills. If ENVY takes that money and then disappears behind a shell company when it's time to clean up, that's a ripoff - legal or otherwise.
<quoted text> Nobody is disagreeing with you on that? The disagreement is THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Let me put it to you this way, how many fake shell companies has Entergy put up as owners of nuclear plants so they can twinkle away with all the dough and stick the state with bill? Rough numbers will be fine.

[Algernon Sidney]

surplus wrote:

it's always about profit

Good point, you never would have caught Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot being concerned about profit as they killed millions. Gorby wasn't concerned about profit when he blew up Chernobyl.

[pro nuke]

"Public voices support for fourth nuke plant"

http://www.palltimes.com/homepage/x560276416

It is nice to see a community who realizes the importance of a nuclear plant. It is also nice to see an un-bias newspaper!!!

[BDV]

surplus wrote:

it's always about profit

If you want to see "going all out for profits" google vorkuta gold at your leisure.