Strontium-90 and VT Yankee

Strontium-90 and VT Yankee

Strontium-90 was detected in a well on Vermont Yankee's site today. The spread of strontium-90 into the groundwater was foreseen by Fairewinds in its report to the Vermont Legislature in July 2010. Fairewinds noted potential impacts on decommissioning, and made recommendations.

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Fairewinds Associates: Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (ENVY) Oversight to JFC

Fairewinds Associates: Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (ENVY) Oversight to JFC

The first requested report by Fairewinds Associates to the VT Legislative Joint Fiscal Committee. This report covers nine issues including leaks and the monitoring of leaks, missed identifying inspection problems, the lack of follow through by the state and ENVY to Public Oversight Panel recommendations, degraded reliability in 2010, and cooperation between the state nuclear engineer and Fairewinds. 

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