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Please welcome Chikako Nishiyama, a nuclear refugee from Kawauchi, Japan, to New England. Ms. Nishiyama will be on a speaking tour of our area with Chiho Kaneko. Kawauchi , formerly a town of 2,300 hundred people 15 miles from the … Continue reading →

SAGE Alliance Banner Drop Friday and Monday Memorial Day Weekend.  And on June 1st: SAGE Alliance SPOKES COUNCIL Pot Luck Picnic and Brainstorming! 11am-1pm, Saturday June 1 on Brattleboro’s Town Common. More info here.

Safe and Green Campaign and 22 other groups organizing in Mark 1 and Mark 2 reactor communities submitted a petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, demanding that they immediately close the reactors. The GE Mark 1 and Mark 2 reactors have significant flaws in the container design, which were confirmed by the on-going catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan.

On Thursday, May 2 from 1:oo-3:00pm, Safe and Green Campaign and co-petitioners will give our statements to the NRC’s petition review board. Safe & Green will address past accidents and near-misses at Vermont Yankee’s Mark 1 reactor. You can listen in to the phone conference, or watch on-line. The NRC will provide 300 toll-free telephone lines through 1-888-603-9750 (Passcode 5506147) for the general public and interested media to listen to the groups’ arguments for enforcement action. Continue reading →

The NRC is coming to town on April 30th, for their dog and pony show, or “Annual Assessment”

You can go and ask why VT Yankee got ALL GREEN LIGHTS for their Annual Safety Assessment for the calendar year 2012. 5:30 Open House, 7:00 Q&A. At the Brattleboro Union High School, Fairground Road, Brattleboro (just off Exit 1, I91), in the Multi Purpose Room at the far end of the school. Continue reading →

 Saturday, March 30 @ 3:30: Leaks, Lies and Lawyers!  Parade  &  Rally CLICK HERE FOR LINKS TO BILLS BEFORE THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, HAND OUTS FROM THE RALLY, AND STORIES FROM THE DAY. THANKS TO THE 500+ FOLKS WHO’S VOICES WERE … Continue reading →

The letter below, by the Safe and Green Campaign, was co-signed by 80 citizens who live in the shadow of Vermont Yankee. You can read the full letter here on our Action page. Vermont Emergency Management has a website for the Vermont’s Radiological Emergency Response plan here.

Dear Governor Shumlin,

Thank you for your efforts to protect Vermonters from the hazards created by the operation of Vermont Yankee and the unscrupulous business practices of Entergy Corporation.

In 2010, we delivered into your hands a petition signed by 1,656 residents living within 20 miles of Vermont Yankee. Our petition said, in part, “We are tired of being asked to believe that evacuation plans will actually work. We ask that you imagine hearing the evacuation sirens go off and knowing that you will be separated from your children, that roads will be clogged, that there will be panic. “

It has been brought to our attention that, as Governor, you are required to sign a letter approving the state evacuation plan for Vermont Yankee by January 31st. We write to ask you not to sign off on the current Radiological Emergency Response Plan. Continue reading →

The Safe and Green Campaign is honored to host Chiho Kaneko once again, for a slide show presentation from her recent trip to Fukushima, Japan. She will speak at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 22 in the Parlor of the … Continue reading →

Don’t retire those “Nuclear Free in 2012″ lawn signs. While 2012 has come to a close, and Vermont Yankee is still producing tons of radioactive waste, the new year’s winds are in our favor. In today’s blog post titled “Vermont … Continue reading →

12.4.12 UPDATE : Today the New England Coalition asked the VT Supreme Court to order Entergy to shut down Vermont Yankee. They want Yankee to “immediately cease and desist from nuclear power generation” until the PSB decides whether or not … Continue reading →

Heads Up! VT State Nuclear Advisory Panel (VSNAP) is holding a meeting from 6-9pm on Thursday, November 29 in the MultiPurpose Room at Brattleboro Union High School. On the agenda: permits for thermal pollution — 5 1/2 years delayed in … Continue reading →