Petition Challenging Entergy's Financial Qualifications to Operate FitzPatrick, Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim
On March 18, 2013, CAN joined with nuclear watchdogs in Massachusetts and New York to file an emergency enforcement petition against Entergy and three of its subsidiaries for failing to meet the NRC's financial qualifications requirements. According to predictions from the financial services firm UBS, FitzPatrick and Vermont Yankee are operating at a loss. The same might be true of the Pilgrim reactor, though no specific UBS analysis on the plant has been released. NRC regulations require companies to be financially qualified to operate their reactors so as to avoid a conflict between profit and safety. On April 23, 2013, the petitioners filed a supplement after discovering plant-specific profit and loss predictions from UBS.
Entergy Financial Qualifications Petition
Entergy Financial Qualifications Supplement 1 - filed after new detailed information came out about the finances at the plants
Entergy Financial Qualification Supplement 4 - update after the announced closure of Vermont Yankee
On May 7, 2013, CAN and other petitioners met with the NRC petition review board to discuss the petition. After the meeting, further supplements to the petition were submitted:
Supplement 2 - Answers to NRC Petition Review Board Questions
Supplement 3 - Recent developments in Entergy's finances, which further make the case against Entergy's financial qualifications
Entergy's 2nd Quarter Earnings Report
Entergy announces layoffs across the company
Mark Cooper Report on nuclear closures and risk factors for FitzPatrick and other plants
On August 8, 2013 CAN and other petitioners were notified that the NRC Petition Review Board had accepted the petition for review by the NRC. The petition now awaits a determination by the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at NRC.
August 8 letter and federal register notice from NRC
Read the November 21, 2013 letter from the New York attorney general to the NRC
Download the attachments to the letter
Supplement to 2.206 Petition Challenging Entergy's Financial Qualifications - Vermont Yankee/Fitzpatrick/Pilgrim
More information about the petition below. This supplemental information was submitted on October 15, 2014.
Letter to NRC explaining supplemental information
1) WKRB News Story: Entergy Receives "BBB" Credit Rating (ETR)
2) WKRB News Story: Entergy Downgraded to "Neutral" at Macquarie (ETR)
3) Entergy: EWC Value Story, 2014 Analyst Day, June 5, 2014
4) Transcript of Entergy Corp at Barclays CEO Energy Power Conference, September 4, 2014
5) Green Mountain Daily Blog Post: What can we honestly expect at Vermont Yankee?
6) Cape Downwinders & Pilgrim Watch petition to modify, suspend, or take any other action to the operating license of pilgrim station
State of New York Public Service Commission: First Quarter 2014 - Lightened Regulation Reporting
October 20, 2014 letter from Massachusetts Attorney General to NRC
January 27, 2015 letter from Vermont Attorney General to NRC
