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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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After a recent opinion piece, facts need to once again be clarified. To this date only a minor fraction of separated uranium has actually been recovered by reprocessing from spent nuclear fuel. And apparently, there are no expectations that this may change in the near future.
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The letter from Bill Day highlights the misunderstandings around post-Vermont Yankee electricity costs and the matter of France. The price of electricity in Vermont is likely to rise significantly no matter what. The current contract with Vermont Yankee will end in 2012.
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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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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 — The recent spate of advertisements promoting the electric power generated at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as "clean and green" doesn't tell the true story, said two Native Americans whose native lands are severely affected by the nuclear power industry. Lorraine Rekmans, of the Northern Ojibwa people from Elliot Lake, Ontario, and Ian Zabarte, from Mercury, Nev., secretary of state of the Western Shoshone National Council, spoke in Brattleboro Monday night, their last stop in a weeklong visit to Vermont organized by the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance and Citizens Awareness Network.
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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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BRATTLEBORO — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued Entergy Nuclear a "noncited violation" for failing to follow industry recommendations last year regarding potential problems at cooling towers. A noncited violation means there will be no permanent penalty against Entergy for the Aug. 21 partial collapse of one of its cooling towers.
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Everything you need to know about the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor!
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MONTPELIER – Tempers wore thin at the Statehouse Tuesday during a discussion about how much money must be set aside for decommissioning the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant when it stops making power. A group of business leaders from across Vermont joined together at the Statehouse to ask lawmakers not to pass a decommissioning bill that has been approved by the Senate and will likely come to the floor of the House by the end of the week.
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