Category Archives: Vermont Yankee

BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont and New Hampshire chapter of the American Red Cross is requesting more than $700,000 for its role in providing aid to 6,000 people who could be evacuated in case of an emergency at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.
The Brattleboro Reformer reports Larry Crist of the chapter says there’s a significant gap between what the response plan calls for and what the Red Cross can reasonably provide in the way of equipment and staffing.
The funds would come from Entergy, which owns and operates the plant.
The Red Cross says it can only accommodate 3,000 evacuees in the 10-mile radius around the Vernon plant.

BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont and New Hampshire chapter of the American Red Cross is requesting more than $700,000 for its role in providing aid to 6,000 people who could be evacuated in case of an emergency at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.
The Brattleboro Reformer reports Larry Crist of the chapter says there’s a significant gap between what the response plan calls for and what the Red Cross can reasonably provide in the way of equipment and staffing.
The funds would come from Entergy, which owns and operates the plant.
The Red Cross says it can only accommodate 3,000 evacuees in the 10-mile radius around the Vernon plant.

VERNON — Nine members of the Shut-It-Down Affinity Support Group were arrested Tuesday afternoon outside the gates of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as a “die-in” protesting the plant’s continued operation.
The nine women — including Julia Bonafine of Shrewsbury and Martha Hennessy of Weathersfield — were arrested by Vermont State Police troopers and charged with trespassing. The women were not given a court date, they said. The other protesters were from Massachusetts.
It was the group’s 20th action at either Vermont Yankee or its corporate offices since December 2005.
The group said it wanted to bring attention to radiation hazards associated with nuclear power.

VERNON — The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is producing electricity at full power again after technicians completed repairs to one of two motor generators that vary the flow of cooling water to the reactor.
Plant spokesman Rob Williams says the problem, discovered was caused by faulty electrical connections in the unit, which is about half the size of a bus.
On June 18 the plant’s output was reduced to 38 percent after, smoke was detected in the reactor building. The smoke was traced to the motor generator, which was shut down.
The Brattleboro Reformer says the motor generator was removed and repaired off-site.
The reactor returned to full power on July 2.

BRATTLEBORO — A “Support Vermont” rally and demonstration to declare Vermont’s “independence from Entergy” is slated for Sunday in Brattleboro and Vernon.
Organizers said the nonviolent demonstration will start at the Brattleboro Common at 10 a.m. Sunday, with people walking the eight miles to the Vermont Yankee plant in time for a noontime rally at the plant’s gates.
The SAGE Alliance says that after a 45-minute rally on the Common, school buses will leave for Vermont Yankee gates. People can also join a bicycle procession from the Common to Vermont Yankee.
Once demonstrators assemble near Vermont Yankee, there will be a procession to the reactor gates. Participants will engage in theater and costuming, organizers said, and some are expected to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience.
“We are not going away until Entergy shuts down and safely decommissions Vermont Yankee,” the SAGE Alliance said in a statement.
People engaging in civil disobedience will have nonviolence training, the organizers said.