Local Meeting Re: Vermont Yankee Relicensing on Thursday!

Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 12:01 PM EDT

At the River Garden at 7pm on March 27, the Windham Regional Commission will take public input on the matter of Vermont Yankee's petition for a 20-year license extension.

While the relicensing process is chugging along, the NRC having declared the plant "good to go," there remain serious concerns about safety and regulation. For example:

• Why did the cooling tower collapse only 6 months after the latest safety inspection found it "safe?"

• Why is the state nuclear engineer, whose sole job is to provide the sort of oversight that would protect us from nuclear accident, not actually a nuclear engineer? What, couldn't they find a fully credentialed person?
• Why didn't the Public Service Board promptly release to either the public or the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel the report on the audit by the NRC's own Office of the Inspector General that found the NRC re-licensing process to be seriously lacking in integrity?
• Should Vermont Yankee actually be allowed to store high-level nuclear waste on a flood plain?

Please, everyone, if you're interested in matters of safety, come to the WRC meeting.

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