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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont’s only nuclear power plant will shut down by the end of next year, ending a nasty legal battle over the future of the 4-decade-old plant, Entergy Corp. announced Tuesday. The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — For sale: Biggest industrial waste site in Vermont, with materials that will remain dangerous for tens of thousands of years. No prospect of resuming its previous money-making activity. Estimated cleanup cost: $1.24 billion. Sound...

Bemnet Alemayehu, Project Scientist, Nuclear Program, Washington, D.C.   U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Environment & Public Works Committee held a hearing on Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 to assess the challenges of nuclear reactor decommissioning...

NorthStar Decomm of Triga Reactor, Omaha The advantage to Vermonters of the sale of Vermont Yankee to NorthStar can be summed up this way: sooner rather than later. As early as 2021, NorthStar, would begin a decade’s worth of decommissioning. By comparison...

Nuclear plant closure plans turn up heat on state's energy debate Officials come to grips with potential adverse impacts of closure ARTICLE | NEWS | OCTOBER 14, 2015 11:00 AM | BY MICHAEL NORTON, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE, MATT MURPHY, STATE HOUSE NEWS...