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Entergy not to be charged over its lies about nuclear radioactive wastes

Vermont won’t charge Entergy over leak -Atty Gen

 * State wants Vermont Yankee reactor to shut in 2012
 * Entergy wants plant to run until 2032
 By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Vermont's attorney general
decided not to charge Entergy Corp (ETR.N) or any of its
current or past employees with perjury for misleading state
officials during an investigation into a radioactive tritium
leak at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2010.
 That leak, and misleading comments by Entergy employees
that there were no underground pipes at the plant leaking
tritium, helped convince state officials the reactor should be
shut in March 2012, even though U.S. regulators renewed its
original 40-year operating license for another 20 years.
 Unless state officials change their minds or New
Orleans-based Entergy, the No. 2 U.S. nuclear power operator,
wins a court case to block the state from shutting the reactor,
Vermont Yankee will close in March 2012.......
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/06/utilities-entergy-vermont-idUSN1E76518U20110706

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July 10, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA