Sentences with phrase «yankee nuclear»

In 2011, Bill McKibben of march sponsor 350.org advocated closing Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Tuesday, April 24, 5:30 — 7:30, 6 pm, Montshire Museum, Norwich, Porter Community Panel Discussion: Decommissioning: A Future Without Vermont Yankee Panel: Deb Katz, Executive Director of the Citizens Awareness Network Chris Williams, Organizer for Vermont Citizens Action Network Robert Stannard, Citizen Lobbyist for the Vermont Citizens Action Network Come learn more about the current status of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, VT: the lawsuits and appeals, the Public Service board process; public engagement and the inevitable nuclear power plant decommissioning.

The Clean Energy Standard (CES) draft acknowledges that the 2.5 percent increase in New England's yearly CO2 emissions after the closure of Vermont's Yankee Nuclear Power Plant at the end of 2014.

He pointed to the NRC as a factor in the closing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, but failed to mention the plant had been plagued by problems in recent years, including a cooling tower collapse and radioactive tritium leak.

He pointed to the NRC as a factor in the closing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, but failed to mention the plant had been plagued by problems in recent years, including

Last Friday at 11 A.M., the operators of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., detected a leak.

With the close of 2014 came the closing of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.

But the furor that began last year over leakage of radioactive tritium from underground pipes into the groundwater around the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vt., illustrated how concerns about reactor safety could suddenly swamp relicensing plans.

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it has no objections to the decommissioning plans developed by the owners of the closed Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

The NRC held meetings with the media and the public on Thursday to explain the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant's decommissioning process.

Photos obtained from a whistleblower and published in a Vermont newspaper have renewed calls for stricter oversight of Entergy and its management of the fund dedicated to decommissioning the closed Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor.

Not exact matches

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

Federal regulators have approved plans for Vermont Yankee to shut down its 10 - mile emergency planning zone around the shuttered nuclear reactor next year.

Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave an overview of the decommissioning process this week and what Vermonters can expect now that the Vermont Yankee reactor has shut down.

For Entergy's nuclear operations in the Northeast, pink slips will go out at Westchester County - based Indian Point, Pilgrim, and Vermont Yankee.

In the U.S. the five new nuclear reactors under construction will replace the four aging reactors that closed in 2013, but as older reactors like Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Vermont Yankee continue to shut down, the number of reactors in the U.S. may be doomed to dwindle as well.

The Vermont Yankee controversy «highlights the fact that nuclear power needs to be very cognizant of public perception and trust,» said EPRI's Wilmshurst.

But there has already been a core damage event in the U.S. nuclear industry — TMI Unit 2 — «so we've already blown the goal,» says Rick DeVercelly, a former operator at the Vermont Yankee and James A. Fitzpatrick (near Oswego, N.Y.) nuclear plants, and now a trainer at the NRC.

And human error led the operators of Vermont Yankee to misplace segments from two spent fuel rods, a chronic problem with nuclear material.

Also in the running would be utilities giving up on 4 or 5 nuclear reactors here in the USA (Crystal River, Vermont Yankee, San Onofre, Kewaunee); these units were all marginal and / or already offline, but it shows which way the momentum is going for nuclear power here in the states.

In every recent closure of a nuclear plant, from Vermont Yankee to California's San Onofre, lost nucear power has been replaced almost exclusively by fossil - fueled power.

For nuclear, Entergy's 640 - MW Vermont Yankee plant shut down in 2014 and the company's 690 - MW Pilgrim nuclear plant on Cape Cod will be out of the mix in 2019.

Despite green groups» claims that nuclear power can be easily replaced by wind, solar and energy efficiency, recently closed plants from Vermont Yankee to California's San Onofre have been replaced overwhelmingly with fossil - fueled power.