Sun Feb 28, 2010 at 02:30:42 PM EST
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| The Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Vermont Yankee is almost as old as Oyster Creek, in Ocean County, near Toms River, and is of similar design. Both Oyster Creek and Vermont Yankee are leaking tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, into the environment. Excelon claims the tritium from Oyster Creek is confined to the plant site.
An Entergy Executive responsible for Vermont Yankee testified under oath to two state panels that there were no buried pipes at Vermont Yankee that could leak tritium. This testimony is now known to be false. The Entergy executive, who perjured himself is believed to be Vice President Jay Thayer.
Vermont Senator Randolph Brock, a Republican from St. Albans, who in the past has supported Vermont Yankee, said "If the board of directors and management of Entergy were thoroughly infiltrated by antinuclear activists, I do not think they could have done a better job of destroying their own case." |
| lfurman :: Vermont Yankee to close. Why is Oyster Creek still open? |
| I don't know about Oyster Creek, but Vermont Yankee is known to be operating at a loss. Without government subsidies, nuclear power, or coal with carbon capture and sequestration, can't compete with wind and solar.
Links:
The New York Times, NPR, Popular Logistics 1, Popular Logistics 2 |
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