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Changes to method of measuring Yankee’s radiation remain a controversial issue with some lawmakers: Times Argus Online

Changes to method of measuring Yankee’s radiation remain a controversial issue with some lawmakers

By Susan Smallheer Rutland Herald – Published: November 24, 2008

BRATTLEBORO — Members of the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel say they feel left in the dark in a controversy over how the state has changed its measure of radiation coming from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Rep. Sarah Edwards, P-Brattleboro, and Sen. Mark MacDonald, D-Orange, faulted David O’Brien, chairman of the panel and the commissioner of the Department of Public Service, for not discussing the radiation issue back in 2005, when the owner of Vermont Yankee first started disputing the radiation levels with state regulators. Their comments came at a Thursday night hearing last week.

MacDonald, who also sits on the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, told the panel that committee had recently determined the Department of Health had violated state law when it changed the way it calculated the radiation coming from Vermont Yankee and didn’t hold the required public hearings about the change, or hold public hearings about Yankee’s potential violation of state law, which was first noted in 2004…………………….The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules found that the Health Department adopted the changes without following state law on how to do it.

Changes to method of measuring Yankee’s radiation remain a controversial issue with some lawmakers: Times Argus Online

November 24, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties