$1 Billion to Clean Up Valley Nuke

Earlier this year, the Vermont senate voted to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2012. Yankee is a few miles from Massachusetts and a stone’s throw from New Hampshire.

“When Vermont Yankee closes in 2012, it will not be the end of the story,” said Paul Burns, director of www.vpirg.org “The reactor site will be a nuclear waste dump that will cost more than $1 billion dollars to clean up.”

The subsidiary of Entergy Corporation that owns Vermont Yankee is likely to declare bankruptcy in 2012 and stick Vermont taxpayers with the clean-up costs.

The Vermont house of representatives will vote on April 13, and the senate shortly after, on a bill to hold Entergy responsible.

“The house clean-up bill is weak,” Burns said. “We have hard work ahead of us in the senate to make the bill stronger. We need all the volunteers and donations we can get.”

Comments

Post new comment

Subject:

Comment: *

Input format

Filtered HTML

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Full HTML

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Images can be added to this post.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA

This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

  ____    ____      _         _____             
 |  _ \  |  _ \    (_)  ___  | ____|  _ __ ___  
 | |_) | | |_) |   | | / __| |  _|   | '_ ` _ \ 
 |  _ <  |  __/    | | \__ \ | |___  | | | | | |
 |_| \_\ |_|      _/ | |___/ |_____| |_| |_| |_|
                 |__/

Enter the code above: *

Enter the code depicted in ASCII art style.