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Yankee nuclear power plant has doubtful future

Vermont Yankee future dogged by doubt Burlington Free Press By Nancy Remsen • Free Press Staff Writer • October 25, 2009 Vermont’s 37-year-old nuclear power plant is constantly in the public spotlight these days as the 2012 expiration date on its license approaches. Entergy Corp., owner of Vermont Yankee, wants to keep the plant operating for another 20 years and has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to extend its operating license until 2032…………….

ISSUE NO. 1: Radioactive waste

Monday morning at the Statehouse, two Senate committees take testimony on the adequacy of the analysis that allowed Vermont Yankee to store radioactive fuel rods in steel and cement casks on a pad outside the reactor building. ….Highly radioactive waste was supposed to be removed from nuclear plants by the federal government beginning in 1998, but it has yet to come up with a long-term storage solution………………..

ISSUE NO. 4: Radiation exposure rule

ISSUE NO. 5: Decommissioning funds

Vermont Yankee future dogged by doubt | burlingtonfreepress.com | The Burlington Free Press

October 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes