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Residents urge Yankee shutdown: Rutland Herald Online

Residents urge Yankee shutdown
RUTLAND HERALD September 23, 2008By Susan Smallheer The only people to speak in favor of the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant Monday night besides its employees were two state legislators from the Northeast Kingdom and the head of the regional Chamber of Commerce in Rutland.Otherwise, Vermonters overwhelmingly said that the Vernon reactor owned by Entergy Nuclear should be shut down in 2012, if not sooner…………………………….“Vermont Yankee is not ‘safe, clean or reliable,’” said Joan Eckley, quoting Entergy Nuclear’s own statewide advertising campaign. “Please close Vermont Yankee as soon as possible.”

Members of the public raised questions about adequate financing of the reactor’s decommissioning fund, the continuing maintenance and operation problems, and the high-level radioactive waste produced, which will remain deadly for thousands of years…………………..Many speakers said that while the shutdown of Vermont Yankee would eventually mean the loss of jobs in southern Vermont, the difference would be more than made up with innovative, high-technology jobs in alternative energy.

Residents urge Yankee shutdown: Rutland Herald Online

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September 23, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety