Maine Yankee - managed by Entergy!

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

This "management agreement" raises many issues. It will be 
interesting to see how this works out. Some questions:

1. Management of the plant will be performed by Entergy. What 
liability will Entergy have if and when there is a serious issue, 
incident, NRC imposed fine, etc.?

2. Northeast Utility owns a large portion of the Yankee Electric 
System. What liability or control has NE given up, accepted, etc. NE 
already has its own problems with Millstone?

3. Is Entergy going to bring its own management team in, down to the 
supervisor level, i.e., Rad Control, Chemistry, Outage Planning, 
etc.?

4. Who does the NRC deal with and do the regulators even have a say 
how this agreement will be managed?

5. There is mention in the article that the future will see a few 
management companys running all of the nuclear units in this country. 
That in itself poses interesting thoughts. Is this going to be just 
like we see in the airline industry, the railroad systems, etc.? 
Haven't they done wonders in their own respective industrys? Are we 
facing more ValuJets? I sure hope not.

6. France and other countrys run their units. However, the primary 
difference there is that there is standardization. That is a key 
element. If the nuclear units in this country were standardized from 
the beginning, there would most likely have been less problems. 

It would be interesting to hear the perspectives from those working 
for Entergy or Maine Yankee regarding their thoughts and any 
apprehension they feel about this announcement.

Sandy Perle
Director, Technical Operations
ICN Dosimetry Division
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