DPS: Yankee statements on piping are ‘flawed and indefensible'

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Source: Brattleboro Reformer

In a letter to the Vermont Public Service Board, the Department of Public Service has alleged that Entergy is still not being totally forthcoming about the extent of underground and buried piping at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.

A filing submitted by Entergy on Jan. 24 has not been "sufficiently responsive" to clear up "inaccurate representations" made last year to the DPS, the PSB, Nuclear Safety Associates, which conducted a reliability assessment of the plant, and the Public Oversight Panel, which was tasked with reviewing NSA's report, wrote Sarah Hofmann, DPS' director of public advocacy in the letter, which was co-signed by John Cotter, DPS' special counsel.

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Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, told the Reformer that Entergy's response to the DPS' request is just another in a long line of falsehoods presented to the state.

"I have concluded that Entergy Louisiana is deliberately misleading Vermonters," he said. "Every day the story gets worse for Vermonters who have no tolerance for deception. It's extremely troubling when the operator of an aging and leaking plant is unable to tell you the truth."

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