mug     

Please Donate To the Greater Falls Warming Shelter in Memory of Julie Waters



Make a New Account

Username:

Password:



Forget your username or password?

Search




Advanced Search


Active Users
Currently 2 user(s) logged on.




Entergy now testing below minimum level of detectable credibility

by: BP

Fri Aug 19, 2011 at 10:00:00 AM EDT


Well now we know how Entergy will try and spin it . In his rushed pushback against the Vermont Department of Health’s announcement that radioactive tritium leaking from VY has reached the Connecticut River, Entergy Vermont Yankee spokes-flack Larry Smith makes a claim that dips below the level of detectable credibility.

Smith maintains that Entergy’s tests are showing tritium levels below the minimum detectable level. He fails to explain how Entergy labs perform this miraculous feat of science.

But New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. issued a statement, saying its testing of the same July 18 and July 25 samples showed levels of tritium below the minimum detectable amount.

"Results from our laboratory testing of those same samples ... show levels that are below that same extreme lower limit," Vermont Yankee spokesman Larry Smith said.

Smith said he could not explain how the company was able to detect tritium at levels below the "minimum detectible." He said Entergy wants an independent third party to analyze both sets of test results to resolve the discrepancy

BP :: Entergy now testing below minimum level of detectable credibility
Tags: , , , , (All Tags)
Print Friendly View Send As Email
Raise Your Voice!

*golf clap* (4.00 / 2)
"Entergy Vermont Yankee spokes-flack Larry Smith makes a claim that dips below the level of detectable credibility."

Well played.


AP (4.00 / 2)
Thanks to Dave Gram  of AP for asking the question.

And great headline!


Well, at least it may be a sign that they now get it (4.00 / 1)
that any detectable tritium is a bad thing.  So much for the banana defense.

relax, it is from the leaking (4.00 / 1)
exits signs at the bellows falls hydro station. where else could it be from?


Maybe they made a colossal bananna smootie (4.00 / 1)
And someone spilled it into the river?

[ Parent ]
damned (4.00 / 1)
Hippies with their pedal powered smoothie makers mucking up the environment. Hows a sportsman supposed to fish and eat! Damned trout taste like Chiquita's now. Maybe Disney could sponsor a few miles of shoreline. Healthy eating and all.

[ Parent ]
This is a job for... (0.00 / 0)
the Clark and Dawes classic, "The front fell off"

http://youtu.be/IQKjj_FDI_M

or perhaps "The Dead Whale": http://youtu.be/W77IqQW9xzU

It gets so reality is less and less distinguishable from satire.

On another front, maybe somebody should send Larry Smith a copy of "Less Than Zero."

Minor Heretic
"Damned for 25% of eternity"


According to the NRC... (0.00 / 0)
...emissions from Larry Smith's office may contain detectable levels of toxins, but they pose absolutely no threat to public health or safety.

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."  --Frank Zappa

Entergy's PR folks (4.00 / 1)
are the best in the business - lies, half-truths, minimize, misrepresent, "mis-speak", act confused, act dumb, drool - and make sure you do it all on Friday after the markets close and the papers have gone to bed.

Obfuscate and play the victim.   This is the essence of the modern corporate PR department.  You are well paid to lie and confuse and act put upon.

Looks like Nuclear is the new Tobacco.  Entergy will drag this out for decades.



GMD Links

Vermont Daily Briefing
Rational Resistance
VT News Guy
VT Digger
Minor Heresies
What's the Point?
Vermont Yankee, evacuation plans, & more
Mulish Behavior
Political Animal (with Steve Benen)
Reason and Brimstone
Blazing Indiscretions
sneigwh
Dohiyi Mir
Blier Watch
five before chaos
Blue Hampshire
Blue News Tribune
Burlington Pol
Norsehorse
Rip & Read
Integral Psychosis
VT Secession
Tenselblog
VT Bloggernaut
Morgan's Gov. race blog
Bureaucracy Blog
Austanspace

Non-political

Candleblog
iBrattleboro
WKVT 1490 AM
Vermont Mornings
False 45th
Bosox Wally

National

Congress Matters
Daily Kos
Open Left
BlogPac
Talking Points Memo
My Left Wing
MyDD
Docudharma
Glenn Greenwald
Firedoglake
Atrios (Eschaton)
Think Progress
Driftglass
Pam's House Blend
Hullabaloo (Digby)
The Plum Line (Sargent)

Legacy Media Blogs

Vermont View
vt buzz
Blurt (7 Days)

International

The Irish Independent
Comment is free...(Guardian UK)
Al Jazeera
Pulse Media
Global Voices
All Voices
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine




Specialized Feeds:

Google Reader or Homepage
Add to My Yahoo!
Subscribe with Bloglines
Subscribe in NewsGator Online

Add to My AOL
Subscribe in Rojo
R|Mail
Add to Technorati Favorites!


RSS FEED


blog advertising is good for you
Event Calendar
May 2012
(view month)
S M T W R F S
* * 01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 * *
<< (add event) >>

Follow us on Twitter! or Like us on Facebook!


Featured Stories
State and Local
National and International




Powered by: SoapBlox