tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post113034599453295877..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Correcting Misleading Comments by an Anti-nuclear ExtremistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-1130698422464987942005-10-30T13:53:00.000-05:002005-10-30T13:53:00.000-05:00Lisa and Howard,"Extremist" ...hmmm... now that's ...Lisa and Howard,<BR/><BR/>"Extremist" ...hmmm... now that's a relative term.<BR/><BR/>I suppose Lisa that you would be referencing my arrest record for trespass during the occupations of the Seabrook construction site,(Howard,didn't you profile non-violent anti-nuclear activists for Public Service of New Hampshire?)<BR/><BR/>and BTW,this very day, Rosa Parks is being brought into the Capitol Rotunda as a result of her once thought "extremist" actions during the civil rights movement. Very courageous, man or woman, to refuse to give a white person your seat on a bus anywhere in the South in those days.<BR/><BR/>Howard, I havent seen you since the PBMR senate briefing with Andy Kadak... Exelon dropped that one like a hot potato... good reasons.<BR/><BR/>Anyways, the unnecessary tag lines led me to digress from the original point of this discuss. What's so misleading about fact that U.S. nukes can't put the lights back on after a blackout? <BR/><BR/>In fact,as Howard points out that would make for "a more complicated and expensive design," chiefly from the safety risks I would say.<BR/>How abouty those "advanced" designs? <BR/> <BR/>With regard to the reference to Vermont Yankee being originally contemplated for blackstart, there is the Vernon hydro-electric dam right there on the Connecuticut River which I think is more likely the reason. <BR/><BR/>There is also nothing misleading about the fact the OSREs typically seek to quickly put a unit into Station Blackout by taking down the transmission lines, first or simultaneously. The fact that a nuclear power plant's operation is umbilically dependent on a very long, brittle and unprotected transmission lines is an outrageous energy policy with its chin out post-911.<BR/><BR/>Paul, NIRSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com