 If I had thought much about it I would have assumed the ever vigilant Vermont Yankee management team might keep their corporate office’s door locked.
However in Brattleboro on Monday eleven women from an anti-nuclear group walked through an unlocked door and entered Entergy’s Vermont Yankee corporate headquarters.
The eleven protesters walked in and spread out yellow crime scene tape in the emergency operations press center conference room in order to make a citizens arrest before they themselves were arrested.
The door they gained entrance through is operated by an electronic key system and people normally enter only when accompanied by an Entergy employee.
Larry Smith, a spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, said 11 people had been arrested Monday but declined to comment further about why the front door to the headquarters was unlocked.
Did I mention the door was unlocked and unattended?
All this follows after last September’s fire at VY headquarters. The fire at Vermont Yankee corporate offices in Brattleboro was termed brazen and suspicious. As far as anyone knows it is still under investigation.
Commenting on the fire last September spokesman Larry Smith said
"It's a little disturbing; it's unnerving. If the cause of the fire is determined to be deliberate, that's the most brazen, deliberate attempt on our property, or our employees or one of our facilities in our 39 year history."
Suggestion: Keep an eye on those unlocked doors, never know who might wander in. |
