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BRATTLEBORO-In March, Vermont Public Service Commissioner Kerrick Johnson stated on Vermont Public's Vermont Edition: "Vermonters should be able to determine [Vermont's] energy portfolio." Fair enough, though he and Gov. Phil Scott seem to have gone ahead and made that determination for us.
Schuyler Gould is a board member of Citizens Awareness Network in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, which promotes the safe regulation and decommissioning of nuclear power plants in New England. He is a past president of New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel...
A few additions to Emma Cotton's informative review of the ongoing decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon are in order. Scott State, CEO of NorthStar, the company decommissioning the plant, suggests that the spent fuel at the plant will remain there "as it stands today...
New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution (NEC) is dedicated to protecting the environment from the dangers of nuclear radiation, particularly those associated with the nuclear-power industry. These dangers are well documented. Entergy Corporation, a multi-billion-dollar, publicly traded corporation in charge of a fleet of 10 nuclear reactors, has proposed selling the shuttered Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, for the purpose of expedited decommissioning, to NorthStar Nuclear Decommissioning Company, LLC, a demolition company with no experience decommissioning commercial nuclear reactors. What...
RE: “After Fukushima, another anniversary” [Letters, March 22]: Ted Jordon is so funny comparing the risk of same-design baseballs to that of same-design nuclear reactors. Har! Har! Har! I'm sure they're rolling on the ground in Fukushima. Well, not their ground; they've been evacuated. Here's another one - this just happened. The power supplying the pumps cooling four of the spent fuel pools at Fukushima failed, and they don't know why! Har! Har! Har! Don't worry about it, they said,
