>The Vermont Yankee plant has the same design as Fukushima Daiichi and was approved for a 20 year extension, ten days after the Fukushima meltdown
Are you suggesting that Vermont is likely to be hit by a tsunami?
The Fukushima plants did not 'fail', they were beaten to fucking death. For whatever reason, the regulations in Japan did not consider tsunamis of that magnitude possible, despite the fact that they have happened several times in recorded history in the same region.
>Also, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) "has never turned down a plant relicensing"
That's probably literally true. This is because the process involves a long period of examination and overseen investigation by parties with no stake in keeping them running - it would be obvious that such a requested license would be turned down years before any kind of formal 'No' would be issued, and continuing to seek one would waste millions of dollars.
Are you suggesting that Vermont is likely to be hit by a tsunami?
The Fukushima plants did not 'fail', they were beaten to fucking death. For whatever reason, the regulations in Japan did not consider tsunamis of that magnitude possible, despite the fact that they have happened several times in recorded history in the same region.
>Also, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) "has never turned down a plant relicensing"
That's probably literally true. This is because the process involves a long period of examination and overseen investigation by parties with no stake in keeping them running - it would be obvious that such a requested license would be turned down years before any kind of formal 'No' would be issued, and continuing to seek one would waste millions of dollars.