Leaky Nuclear Plants vs. Renewable Pipe Dreams

Cassandra Anderson

Activist Post

Recently a federal judge blocked Vermont from decommissioning the leaky Yankee nuclear reactor that is almost identical to Fukushima Reactor #1, using the excuse that only the corrupt federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) can decommission a reactor. 

WRONG!

Under the Tenth Amendment States’ Rights, states can do anything they want as long as it is not a power that is:

•  delegated to the federal government in the Constitution

•  prohibited to the states by the Constitution

•  prohibited to the state by its own constitution

The Constitution lacks provisions forcing a state to risk its citizens’ lives in order to boost nuclear industry profits.

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Federal Judge Says States Not Allowed to Regulate Nuclear Safety

Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky
All Gov
January 25, 2012

The state of Vermont’s effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority.

In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, which has leaked radioactive material, to cease operations when its license expires in March. But Judge J. Garvan Murtha said Vermont does not have the power to compel the plant’s owner, Entergy, to stop using the reactor because only the federal government can regulate safety issues related to nuclear power. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has already announced that the power plant can remain operating for another 20 years.

The judge also ruled that the state cannot force Entergy to sell electricity from the reactor to in-state utilities at reduced rates as a condition of continued operation.

However, Murtha made it clear that he was only rejecting the state’s attempt to shut down the plant based on safety issues. He noted that his decision did not “purport to define or restrict the State’s ability to decline to renew a certificate of public good on any ground not pre-empted or not violative of federal law.”

Vermont officials are expected to appeal the ruling

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Alaska Man Cited For Illegal Bartering: “I Need Some Firewood and I’m Willing to Trade Some Moose Meat”

If you’re planning on bartering emergency stockpiles and supplies in the event of a disaster then be sure to check applicable state and Federal laws or you may end up being the subject of a sting operation, as was the case with Chad Gerondale of Alaska.

Bartering may have been a necessary trade practiced by the earliest of our human ancestors, but in a society where central planning and control is the status quo, even the exchange of food or services becomes an illegal act:

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