Re: N.U Must Pay For Decommissioning -Reply

["Robert D. H. Aft" <AllianceScaff@snet.net>]

Sandy Perle wrote:
> 
> > 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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The Management of NU was incompetent and reckless I bet my career on
that and was correct. Yes NU has MANY great people at both Millstone and
Connecticut Yankee. But the NU of the early 90's was a cruel and
punitive organization.
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