We must keep our focus on the public good for the citizens of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire as Vermont Yankee is powering down and working toward closure in December.
The emergency planning zone (EPZ) is a critical way to keep that focus sharp.
Entergy says it's no big deal; but what's so great about having tritium leaking into the groundwater? What's so great about finding tritium in the Connecticut River or a fish with strontium in it? What's so great about Vermont Yankee dumping hot water into the Connecticut River undermining the...
Alongside rivers and lakes, on ocean shores and in tidal bays, in other vulnerable places, nearly 63,000 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste - which will remain dangerous for longer than currently recorded history - sits in temporary storage. In some cases, it's been there for decades. And it's...