Vermont Yankee: Now What Are Opponents Doing?
By Howard Shaffer The shutdown of Vermont Yankee at the end of its current fuel cycle next fall has been announced. Now that opponents have been handed what they were Continue Reading →
By Howard Shaffer The shutdown of Vermont Yankee at the end of its current fuel cycle next fall has been announced. Now that opponents have been handed what they were Continue Reading →
By Meredith Angwin Since Entergy announced that it would close Vermont Yankee, I have been thinking about advice for nuclear plants going forward. I mean, they haven’t asked me for Continue Reading →
By Howard Shaffer The fall in New England brings crispness to the air, beautiful mountainsides covered with leaves turning color, and a spur to activity before the coming winter. The Continue Reading →
By Howard Shaffer On August 27, Entergy announced that it plans to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in the fall of 2014, when the plant’s current fuel is Continue Reading →
“Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station generates 72.5 percent of the state’s electricity while emitting no greenhouse gases.” So reads the first sentence of a fact sheet on Vermont Yankee from Continue Reading →
By Howard Shaffer Energy-related events in Vermont continue to be a jumble of citizen activism, political maneuvering, changes to the electric power system, and an overall focus on nuclear power. Continue Reading →
By Howard Shaffer The governor of Vermont last year established the “Energy Generation Siting Policy Commission” after citizens protested a proposed wind farm (meanwhile, the legislature proposed a wind farm Continue Reading →