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Members of the Atomic Safety Licensing Board peppered expert witnesses from Entergy Nuclear and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Tuesday about Vermont Yankee's history of emergency shutdowns and the lack of public oversight in the reactor re-licensing process. Tuesday marked the second day of testimony in the federal hearing on several unanswered issues about the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant that were raised by the New England Coalition, with the Vermont Department of Public Service joining the challenge.
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U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., said Friday that Vermont consumers shouldn't have to pay for Entergy Nuclear's cooling tower mistakes, and called on the Vermont Public Service Board to review the situation. Last week, Entergy Nuclear was forced to shut down both cooling towers at Vermont Yankee because of a leak in one tower and cracked support beams in the other.
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Critics of Vermont Yankee say the most recent problems with the nuclear plant's cooling tower show a disturbing pattern of poor management and lax state oversight. But state officials say they're not getting the cooperation they need from the plant's operators.
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Two nuclear watchdog groups called for the immediate shutdown of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Friday, saying the latest failure at the Vernon facility is one too many. Members of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group and the Citizens Action Network said at a Statehouse press conference that they have lost all faith in the ability of state and federal regulators to monitor the nuclear plant.
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The highest-level staff official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, aside from the presidentially appointed commission members themselves, arrived in Vermont Monday to head up a special investigation into why serious problems continually plague Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's cooling towers. William Borchardt, executive director of the NRC, held a meeting with NRC staff in Vermont late Monday afternoon, and will hold a briefing for state officials and representatives of the state's congressional delegation today.
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Problems with broken wooden timbers continue to plague Vermont Yankee's cooling towers, as Entergy Nuclear was forced Friday to cut power production in half. According to a preliminary report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, engineers found timber support problems first in the east cooling tower and then in the west tower, including the same cell that was rebuilt last summer after it collapsed.
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A leak in one of Vermont Yankee's cooling towers has state officials and legislators concerned that the owner of the nuclear power plant in Vernon is not doing all that it promised to insure the plant operates safely. Both cooling towers at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon were pulled out of service Friday morning after technicians discovered sagging and leakage in a pipe that moves thousands of gallons of water through the plant's cooling system. Because of the loss of the cooling towers, power output at the plant was reduced to less than 50 percent.
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The state officially began its inquiry Thursday into whether the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant should remain operating with a hearing before the Vermont Public Service Board. But already questions are being raised about whether the board's work will be completed in time for lawmakers to make their decision on the plant's future before they go home at the end of the next legislative session in 2009.
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The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is operating at half its power level while it investigates a leak in one of the plant's cooling towers. The cooling towers were the source of a problem last summer when one of them degraded so badly that it collapsed.
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(Host) Legislative leaders have picked a nuclear engineer and a veteran utility regulator for a panel that will oversee the inspection of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. But the Douglas Administration immediately criticized the appointments. The administration complains that the two are critics of nuclear power.
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Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (ENVY) is scheduled to close for good on the first day of spring 2012 after 40 years of troubled operation. However, in 2006, Entergy Corp., the Louisiana company that owns the plant, applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a 20-year license extension. Also in 2006, the Vermont Legislature passed Act 160, which says ENVY cannot operate after 2012 "unless the general assembly approves and determines that the operation will promote the general welfare."
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MONTPELIER — The future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has been one of the most controversial issues in the state. But a bill signed by Gov. James Douglas on Friday establishes the criteria for an inspection of the plant that both sides seem able to live with. The bill is a preparation for next year, when lawmakers may exercise their chance to vote on whether the plant should be allowed to continue operating. The creation of an inspection standard and process raises the stakes for both supporters and opponents of the plant.
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VERNON — Entergy Nuclear will begin storing its low-level radioactive waste on-site, after its long-time disposal site in South Carolina closes next month. Entergy Nuclear is not alone in the disposal problem, as the Chem-Nuclear LLC site in Barnwell, S.C., takes radioactive waste from 36 states.
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BRATTLEBORO — After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August at Vermont's only nuclear power plant, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly. The uproar that followed rekindled environmental groups' hopes of shutting down the aging plant.
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BRATTLEBORO — Entergy Nuclear can resume discharging heated water into the Connecticut River this summer, according to a decision by Environmental Court Judge Merideth Wright released Friday. However, Wright imposed conditions on the discharge and didn't grant the nuclear company its full request. She said Entergy couldn't discharge the 105-degree water until July, and ordered that the company install temperature sensors at the Vernon hydroelectric dam, which is downstream from the Vernon reactor.
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Vermont Yankee's advertisements would have us believe that nuclear power is clean, safe and reliable. This is psychological abuse on the part of Entergy towards the good people of Vermont. This week, throughout the state, I had the opportunity to listen to two speakers who have dedicated themselves to exposing the truth that we don't hear in our dialogues, debates and discussions about the future of Vermont Yankee. Lorraine Rekmans, a member of the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario and candidate for parliament, and Ian Zabarte, the secretary of state for the Western Shoshone Nation near Yucca Mountain, spoke about the missing pieces in Entergy's clean energy campaign. These missing pieces are uranium mining, waste storage and current nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada test site.
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VERNON — Workers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant are taking additional precautions when working around a 97-ton cask filled with high-level radioactive waste after a crane moving the cask malfunctioned last week. The cask still isn't in its final steel and concrete shroud or storage location, although its first shroud does protect workers from potentially deadly doses, a spokesman from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday.
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BRATTLEBORO -- It's been 10 months since Environmental Court Judge Merideth Wright heard testimony related to the water temperature of the Connecticut River just below Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Did the Agency of Natural Resources err when it approved a permit allowing the heated water flowing out of the plant to raise the overall temperature of the river by 1 degree?
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BRATTLEBORO — The first attempt by the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to move highly radioactive spent fuel from a storage pool to a new concrete pad outside the reactor building ended in a mishap when a crane dropped a concrete storage cask 4 inches to the floor, officials said.
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BRATTLEBORO -- The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will not be penalized for allowing a cooling tower to degrade to such an extent that it collapsed, spilling thousands of gallons of water. Advertisement The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has instead issued the plant a "noncited violation" for not following nuclear industry recommendations for preventing the problems that led to the collapse last August.
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