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Maine: democracy under threat – in the push for Small Modular Nuclear reactors

LePage Plan to Change Nuclear Power Rules Meets Resistance MPBN News, By Alanna Durkin, The Associated Press, 29 Apr 15 

AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal aimed at making it easier to bring small nuclear power plants to Maine is meeting fierce resistance because it would strip voters of their power to sign off on new plants.

Currently, Maine voters must approve the construction of any nuclear power plant. But LePage wants to remove that requirement for plants that generate 500 or fewer megawatts…….anti-nuclear activists said that removing voters’ right to decide whether Maine should build more potentially dangerous plants is wrong.

The state’s only nuclear power plant, Maine Yankee, closed in 1997.http://news.mpbn.net/post/lepage-plan-change-nuclear-power-rules-meets-resistance

April 30, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA