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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin asked President Barack Obama to give the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) the authority to require Entergy Corp. to fully decommission Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant instead of allowing the company to store all of the radioactive waste from the facility on the site.
Shumlin told reporters last week that he made his case to the president during the National Governors Association meeting last weekend. Obama supports a new generation of nuclear power plants.
“I said, 'you know, in order to sell new nuclear to America, you're going to have to deal with old nuclear better,'” Shumlin said. “The fact that we're sitting here with … an aging nuclear power plant. We're going to have high-level nuclear waste on the banks of the Connecticut River for as long as the eye can see. The NRC feels that it's up to Entergy Louisiana … to decide to leave the carcass of the plant in place for 60 years because they've been unwilling to fill up their decommissioning funds to keep their promises to take the waste away whenever they shut down. We need some help here, Mr. President.”
It wasn't clear from Shumlin's remarks whether help from Obama will be forthcoming. Vermont's congressional delegation, however, last week pressed NRC chair Gregory Jaczko to require Entergy to decommission the plant.
In the wake of new tests that show elevated levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, in two monitoring wells at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Gov. Peter Shumlin announced on Feb. 1 that the state will create an oversight panel to keep tabs on...
Gov. Peter Shumlin recently declared that he will make it easier for news organizations – and ordinary citizens - to get information from the government. Shumlin outlined a number of improvements in the public records law and made a commitment to set changes in motion that could shift the...
Vermont's health care system is broken, but it's not beyond repair, according to Dr. William Hsiao, who has been hired by the Legislature to design three medical care reform plans for Vermont. Fully integrating reforms, however, could take as long as 12 years, Hsiao told an audience of about 100 people at the Statehouse on Dec. 14. Hsiao made the remarks at a hearing before the Vermont Health Care Committee. He and his team gave the committee a status update...
New rules under consideration by a Texas commission could hamper the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in the near future, according to experts and activists who oppose the change. They say the proposal, which would allow a Texas landfill to accept additional waste from out-of-state entities, including nuclear power companies like Entergy Corp., could give away space that is allotted for anticipated radioactive material from Vermont Yankee. Texas formed a compact with Vermont in 1998 to establish...
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The last time Elizabeth Bankowski served as a member of a gubernatorial transition team was in 1984 - the year Madeleine Kunin became governor. Bankowski was Kunin's campaign manager and became her chief of staff. Back then her liaison to Gov. Richard Snelling's office was Tim Hayward. As she works to help Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin establish his footing for his ascent to the Fifth Floor of the Pavilion Office Building on Jan. 6, Bankowski is working with Hayward again. This...
The Public Oversight Panel, a group of nuclear experts that reports to the Vermont Legislature, has determined that Entergy Corporation's misstatements about underground pipes carrying radioactive waste at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant came out of a culture of communication failures that perpetuated inaccuracies. The panel issued a supplemental report on the reliability of the Vernon plant Tuesday and listed three main “concerns,” including “misleading information,” Entergy officials' unquestioning attitude about the maintenance and conditions at the plant and the...
