The debate over re-licensing the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant
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· Electricity Journal
In 2009, the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board approved a 20-year license extension for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant. Less than seven months later, the Vermont State Senate voted 26-4 to block the required certificate for public good. How did a plant seen as likely to be re-licensed become the first in 20 years to be rejected in a public vote? (author)
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- 21328626
- Journal Information:
- Electricity Journal, Vol. 23, Issue 4; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved; ISSN 1040-6190
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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