Per Josh Stilts in today’s Brattleboro Reformer:
…operators… claimed that a closure of the nuclear plant infringes on their civil liberties because their operating licenses are specific to Vermont Yankee. To operate another facility, they would have to go through rigorous training,..
So let’s get this straight: they chose to take a job at a plant that was scheduled to close in 2012. And now they’re suing Vermont because they don’t like that they may have to get training elsewhere to work at another plant.
Did Vermont make the regulations that require them to get training to work elsewhere?
Did Vermont make them chose to work at a plant that was scheduled to close in 2012?
What exactly is their argument here? We don’t wanna? You can’t make us?
I’d say this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, but I’ve been following VY news for some time now. Sadly, this doesn’t even come close.
who can i sue for taking on lots of student loan debt for going to art and architecture school?
the unemployed have got it all wrong, job hunting, trying to go back to school, working odd jobs until something better comes along! they just need lawyers!
I majored in Soviet Studies. I’m pissed we won the Cold War and gotta sue somebody…
This is something I’ve been saying for years:
We’ve known this day was coming since 1972!
Anyone that makes the argument that we can’t shut down VY (such as these operators, or the IBEW) are so full of crap: they have known this day was coming for 40 years! If they feel the need to sue someone it should be their employers for making the false claim that their jobs were safe for another 20 years.
And what if VY runs for another 20 years (gods forbid!)? Will they file lawsuits in 2032 for closing the plant then? Will the plant owners demand, and receive from a lapdog NRC another extension to runt the plant until 2052?
These deluded souls need to be treated appropriately, according to the merits of their suit: laughed out of court in 5 minutes and charged hefty fees for wasting the court’s time.
1) The decommissioning process will take decades, and with their familiarity with nuclear power and some additional training, these folks could be at the forefront of the next wave in nuclear power – its gradual demise.
2) There are plenty of aging Boiling Water Reactors circa 1970-80s that the NRC is going to relicense, all of the BWRs in the US (34 more) are GE Mark I, just like VY. Can’t imagine there is much new to learn.
3) They could take Japanese classes.
If these workers want to sue someone, they should be suing Entergy for misleading them into thinking the plant would operate beyond its expiry date; or for so mismanaging the plant that they left little likelihoood it could be relicensed.
How about suing the NRC for systematically undermining safety regulations and enforcement so that Entergy was allowed to mismanage the plant into an indefensible state?
Talk about delusional behavior!
Vermont’s AG appears to think so and suggests someone follow the money financing the case.
http://www.reformer.com/localn…
The latest antics, attempting to spin the true motives for their woes- corporate wide dishonesty & gross mismanagement of VY- as a human tragedy is incredibly ridiculous & another stunning example of arrogance.
Continuing to use their puppets, er, highly paid employees w/six figure income as ‘poster children’, the supposed victims of VT’s decision to close their mismanaged crumbling reactor w/rotting nuclear waste-leaking pipes & move to safer clean energy is not new.
The demand that they are owed something from VT & rights have been violated displays the same odd disconnect as the out of state corporate interests the employees represent. Their support for a forced occupation & war to subjugate the tiny state of VT, reprehensible.
Newest chapter, VT now up against & under seige from the the nuclear industry represented by NRC’s reported move to pressure the DOJ to nullify our states rights, makes their actions all the more devious & destructive.