New Orleans-based Entergy Corporation's name has appeared in a series of nuclear adventures recently. On April 21 the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that two pieces of a nuclear fuel rod at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee (VY) nuclear plant had gone missing. The NRC’s Neil Sheehan described the missing highly radioactive material as “fatal to anyone who came into contact with it without being properly shielded.” For the rest of the story read on.