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The Vermont Public Utility Commission has ruled that the majority of testimony offered by Ray Shadis and Arnie Gundersen is admissible. In doing so, the commission overruled most objections filed last fall by Entergy and NorthStar Group Services, the idled nuclear plant’s current and prospective owners.

In a key finding, the commission ruled that Shadis should be allowed to weigh in as an expert. Commissioners noted that Shadis – a longtime adviser to the Brattleboro-based New England Coalition – testified when Entergy bought Vermont Yankee 16 years ago.

“Mr. Shadis’ experience constitutes sufficient knowledge of matters that could assist the commission in understanding the issues before us as much today as it did in 2002, and the level of Mr. Shadis’s experience will go to the weight that we give his admitted testimony,” the commission’s Feb. 8 decision says.

Entergy stopped producing power at Vermont Yankee in late 2014, and the company had been planning an extended decommissioning process that could have lasted until 2075…….. https://vtdigger.org/2018/02/12/nuclear-power-critics-to-testify-vermont-yankee-case/