Deborah Katz

Emergency planning zones are critical to public safety

Emergency planning zones are critical to public safety

The public need for evacuation won’t disappear once VY shuts down; all that waste is still up there cooling off

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.

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What’s so great?

Questions abound when considering Vermont Yankee

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...

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The waste is here. Now what?

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...

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