Keeping your community covered. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
Keeping your community covered. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
The writer is grossly ill-informed and practicing the maximum of political spin.
1. Entergy and all other nuclear power plant owners don't control the trust funds for the decommissioning funds. They are independently managed. Her statement that Entergy will be free to play the stock market is not true. Do Commons readers think that Senator Bernie Sanders wouldn't have caught this if it were true?
2. Used fuel can't physically be moved from the spent-fuel pool until it has “cooled” for five years. If it was tried, it would overheat and crack or melt if not in water. Even if the Town Meeting votes to remove this fuel, it will still need cooling.
...Councilor Sandra Levine did a fine job of doing what she is paid to do: spread discontent and misinformation. She got everything wrong, either intentionally or through carelessness. Date: Dec. 23 is two days before Christmas. Lack of Certificate of Public Good: Entergy is operating under the old one...
What would the writer like to see in an agreement between the state of Vermont and Entergy? Exact dates and dollar figures? How can these be even estimated for 2029? All the writer did was criticize. Not one positive suggestion was made. When Vermont Yankee was built, many “promises”
RE: “On joy and justice” [Viewpoint, Sept. 4]: Congratulations to Chad Simmons and his fellow volunteers on their political victory. Victory is that they got what they wanted. A political victory does not change the facts of science and engineering. Thousands will be exposed to high levels of radiation this week, for cancer treatment, for example.
Opponents of Vermont Yankee say there is no solution to the used fuel problem. What is true is that there is not a political solution (yet) to the used fuel problem in this country. Other countries have political solutions, having chosen one of several technical solutions. Nuclear opponents don't want a solution. Their tactic is to oppose and stall everything that moves the progress of nuclear power forward. They have the misguided belief that if they somehow manage to get...
“Closing the cycle: Advocates rally in support of cooling the river” [News, Sept. 19] offered excellent reporting on bad facts given to the reporter. The protesters said that the shad have decreased since the 1990s. What about the years since 1972 until the 1990s when the plant was operating? By law, there is an annual environmental survey round the plant. What did they show? New, large nuclear plants have been completed on time and on budget. But not in our...
RE: “Protesters plan to take to the river: SAGE seeks to call attention to thermal pollution at VY” [Sept. 5]: As a nuclear engineer and supporter of Vermont Yankee, I believe, first of all, in science. I accept new findings, as long as they are really scientifically produced. I also accept that it is likely that we did not know all there is to know about the sciences of life forms in the river. We might learn more and have...
RE: “Clearing up the VY euphemisms” [Letters, Aug. 1]: Good questions are raised. It's called an “Emergency Planning Zone” because that's what it is. In the event of an accident and release, not everyone would have to evacuate. The wind doesn't blow in all directions at once, so only those likely to be affected would need to seek shelter in place or leave. The emergency plan includes: recognizing and declaring an emergency with its potential; notifying local, state, and national...
