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Celebrating at Vermont Yankee: A successful rally on St Patrick’s Day
By Meredith Angwin The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s original Nuclear Regulatory Commission license expired on March 21, 2012 . The NRC, however, has renewed the license for another 20 years,...
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The Nuclear Debate On the Road
By Howard Shaffer Plymouth, Massachusetts, “America’s Home Town,” is the place where the pilgrims landed, and is also the home of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. On March 29, a forum was held in...
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Tape review of Vermont Yankee power struggle debate
By Rod Adams One of my college roommates served for a while as the manager of our football team; we would talk about the “tape review” sessions that were used by the team to evaluate past performance...
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The Vermont Yankee Follies Continue
By Howard Shaffer Since March 22 of this year, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has been operating via a 20-year license extension granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The State of...
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Facts and fears at NRC public review in Vermont
By Howard Shaffer Vermont Yankee’s annual NRC performance review for the previous calendar year was held May 23, in Brattleboro Union High School, within 10 miles of the plant. In previous years,...
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Some Big Changes in Vermont
By Howard Shaffer Since the previous View from Vermont posted June 12, courts have issued several decisions that will have a major effect on nuclear power nationally, and on the Vermont Yankee nuclear...
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Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel: Safety Again!
By Meredith Angwin VSNAP is the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel. This state panel gives advice to the state government on nuclear issues. The most recent meeting was in Montpelier, Vermont, on...
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Vermont Weather Gets Colder – Vermont Yankee Politics Continue Hot
By Howard Shaffer Some long-awaited events related to the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant took place toward the end of 2012, such as the trial of some members of the Shut...
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Vermont Yankee and Optimism
By Meredith Angwin Refueling optimism The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will refuel this spring, probably in March or April. Vermont Yankee’s statement announcing the refueling was optimistic...
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Love Feast Under The Golden Dome
By Howard Shaffer Vermont’s Capitol building has a gold-painted domed roof. The media reports legislative activity somewhat derisively as taking place “under the golden dome.” On April 25, Arnie...
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Power Play: People, Politics, Electricity, Nuclear
By Howard Shaffer Energy-related events in Vermont continue to be a jumble of citizen activism, political maneuvering, changes to the electric power system, and an overall focus on nuclear power. The...
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Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station to close end of 2014
“Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station generates 72.5 percent of the state’s electricity while emitting no greenhouse gases.” So reads the first sentence of a fact sheet on Vermont Yankee from the...
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Why don’t we “mothball” shutdown nuclear plants?
By Rod Adams In May 2013, the United States lost a perfectly functional and well-maintained nuclear power plant, the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant. Last week, Entergy announced that it would be shutting...
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Vermont Yankee closure announced – There is work yet to be done
By Howard Shaffer On August 27, Entergy announced that it plans to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in the fall of 2014, when the plant’s current fuel is depleted. Entergy plans to...
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Save Vermont Yankee. If not you, who? If not now, when?
By Rod Adams I told some friends the other day that I often feel like a time traveler from the Age of Reason who sees questionable behavior and is forced by training to ask, “Why?” Although I have...
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