Vermont Yankee is now shut down as of December 29, 2014!
February 17, 2021
March 11 marks ten years since Japan was hit by an earthquake and tsunami, destroying 85,000 homes and businesses. By 2021 the country could have rebuilt but for a disaster that continues today: the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in … Continue reading →
Tags: anti-nuclear, Fukuhima Anniversary, Fukushima, nuclear power, nuclear waste
MEETING OF THE FULL PANEL Monday, March 15, 2021 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Microsoft Teams Webcast/Teleconference The Full Panel will hold its first meeting of 2021 on Monday evening, March 15, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. In accordance … Continue reading →
Tags: NDCAP, nuclear waste
February 3, 2021
Thank you to Safe and Green Campaign’s Ann Darling writing this OpEd for My Turn in the Hampshire Gazette. —– I am very heartened by the signing of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by 50 countries and … Continue reading →
Tags: anti-nuclear, nuclear, nuclear waste, nuclear weapons
January 20, 2021
Olga Peters of The Commons of Windham County updates us with her cover story on a new land inventory of the nuclear waste site. January 20, 2021 issue of Commons News 0596.pdf
PRESS RELEASE from NDCAP January 20th Special Meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Committee Announced; this inaugural meeting will identify the Committee’s initial steps regarding Federal policies. Montpelier, VT – The newly-formed Federal … Continue reading →
November 16, 2020
11.16.2020 Reformer: Decomm panel to reconsider interim waste storage Headline: Decommissioning panel set to review earlier stand on interim waste storage By Susan Smallheer, Brattleboro Reformer VERNON — Should Vermont take a stand on a national proposal to create an … Continue reading →
Tags: decommissioning, nuclear waste
September 13, 2020
As far as we know, the only press which covered this event was WAMC (Albany NY radio): https://www.wamc.org/post/decommissioning-panel-holds-meeting-vermont-yankee-and-spent-fuel-policy LET’S GET SOME CITIZEN INPUT INTO THE NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING CITIZENS ADVISORY PANEL!! By Ann Darling, Safe and Green Campaign & Citizens Awareness … Continue reading →
February 9, 2020
Somehow, a staffer in Rep Welch’s office thought because nobody had spoken up about rad waste, it was okay to vote YES on Yucca Mountain and interim storage bills. Let him know he was wrong. While you’re busy writing to … Continue reading →
Tags: nuclear waste
January 30, 2020
The next Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel meeting on February 3rd will tackle the issue of who pays to support NDCAP. In a letter to the editor, Safe and Green Campaign member Ann Darling asks ” How can the panel … Continue reading →
Tags: decommissioning, NDCAP, Vermont Yankee Nuclear
January 14, 2020
The Greenfield Recorder published an article on page 1 of its January 7, 2020 edition headlined: Author Shares Thoughts on ‘Bright Future’ of Nuclear Power. [Link to article is here] It includes cynical, jaw dropping statements like this: Environmental groups, … Continue reading →
Tags: climate change, nuclear, nuclear waste, water