NRC grants Entergy 20-year renewal for Vermont Yankee, but state officials plan to exercise veto

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Source: NOLA.com (Times-Picayune)

NRC grants Entergy 20-year renewal for Vermont Yankee, but state officials plan to exercise veto
Published: Monday, March 21, 2011, 1:55 PM
By Jonathan Tilove, The Times-Picayune


WASHINGTON -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Monday renewed Entergy's license to operate the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant for another 20 years.

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A new governor, Peter Shumlin, was elected last fall on a pledge to shut down the plant when its current license expires next year.

The Legislature and public opinion in the home state of Ben and Jerry's seem equally ill-disposed toward keeping the plant operating. And, most significantly, Vermont is the only state in the union where the Legislature has a veto power.

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Shumlin said Vermont Yankee, located along the Connecticut River near the Massachusetts line, was of special concern because of its ownership and management, which he said were guilty of a series of "misrepresentations and mishaps and leaks," that had squandered the good will Vermonters had for the plant's builders and original owners - a consortium of Vermont and New England utilities that sold Vermont Yankee to Entergy in 2002.

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Read more: http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2011/03/nrc_grants_entergy_20-year_ren.html

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It's Entergy Louisiana which now owns the plant, which is why this article is in the Times-Picayune.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. Coumo and NYers plan on closing Indian Point too...Coumo will veto too