Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Avoid vacationing in New Hampshire

Planning a vacation? You may want to avoid New Hampshire. Not because New Hampshire is a bad place, mind you, but because it is east of Vermont, which seems to be having a lot of trouble with one of its nuclear power plants:
Gov. John Lynch said yesterday he has serious concerns about the lack of detail that Vermont Yankee nuclear plant managers provided when the plant shut down suddenly on Monday.

The outage was described Monday as an electrical problem, followed by shutdown and use of emergency stabilization systems.
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The event is the latest in a series of events at the plant. Last year, staff lost track of segments of two spent fuel rods, had a fire inside the plant, mistakenly disconnected part of its emergency notification system and discovered cracks in a component that connects to the turbine.

Vermont Yankee makes Aruba look like a nice alternative to a vacation in New Hampshire.

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