2/17/2012 Vermont Yankee and Other Aging Nuclear Power Plants

Source: CNN
Date: 2/17/2012
by: Amber Lyon

[Editor's Note:
Arnie Gundersen and Bernie Sanders are interviewed along with Vermont's attorney general William H. Sorrell who says Entergy, the utility which runs the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, misled them. There is also an attempt to interview the Entergy CEO J. Wayne Leonard and to interview the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who both declined to be interviewed.

The state of Vermont is trying to appeal the Federal decision to allow 20 year re-licensing of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant (e.g. they do not want this nuclear power plant to continue operation in their state).  Read about this appeal here.

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Map of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant:

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