Re: N.U Must Pay For Decommissioning -Reply

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> It was economics, not  incompetence, which shut Connecticut Yankee down.

In support of Claude's statement, I am not aware that Conn. 
Yankee was ever on the NRC's watch list. Even if it were, that does 
NOT mean that there was incompetence. Hypothetically speaking, 
if there were some management decisions that might have been 
better, and I am not saying that this is the case, it is not 
acceptable to correlate that with "incompetence". With downsizing 
and other issues affecting the power reactor world today, if we see 
Millstone pulling itself out of the quandary it had been in the past, 
one can also make the statement that there was not incompetence 
previously. If that were the case, and, there were not significant 
number of "new" personnel added to the system, are we to believe 
that "incompetent" workers somehow saw the light, and are now 
amongst the "competent"???

NU has had problems, as have other facilities. Calling the plant and 
in so doing, the staff, incompetent, is highly unjustified. There are 
many excellent workers there, and those whom I know can not be 
labelled as "incompetent". On the other hand, I know of many 
incompetent judges, as labelled by the American Bar Association, 
and which is published periodically, based on criteria and ratings...

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