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Take Action Take a look at Past Safe & Green Actions and then join our email list to hear about upcoming actions and to get the latest news. You can always write a letter to the editor, or and write to your elected officials and regulators — scroll down for their contact info. Here are the current HOT TOPICS:. DECOMMISSIONING NRC Public Hearing on Entergy VT Yankee PSDAR [Post Shut Down Activities Report – the decommissioning plan] FEBRUARY 19, 2015 6-9PM QUALITY INN, PUTNEY RD., BRATTLEBORO, VT Event Details & Public Comment Info Here Safe & Green Campaign with Citizens Awareness Network are hosting an educational forum to assist citizens in developing public comments for this hearing: The NRC & You Forum is Monday, February 9, Marlboro Graduate Center, Brattleboro 6-8:30pm. Click here for details. Please join our email list to keep informed by completing a Contact Us form. Attend meetings of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel. There is time after each agenda item for public comment. Their webpage is here. Keep informed. If it seems like there are too many issues to follow, pick one and focus on it. We have a list of issues as well as information and news on our Decommissioning Resources page. Let VT Commissioner Chris Recchia know you appreciate his work to make our citizens’ voices heard in Washington. In the past year he has testified twice before the NRC calling for more state and local participation in decommissioning planning, keeping the evacuation zone in place, moving spent fuel promptly into dry cask storage, and more. The State is also opposing Entergy’s request for an exemption to emergency planning. Read more here for testimony to the NRC Commissioners, and here for his July 2014 testimony to NRC staff. (Contact info below). Write to Senators Sanders and Markey and US Rep. Welch and thank them for putting forward bills to allow states and local communities a say in decommissioning planning. (Contact info below). EMERGENCY PLANNING Read our Emergency Planning Zone Update (as of 02.02.2015) Please send in your public comment to the NRC by February 9, requesting that the NRC deny Entergy’s request to exempt it from emergency planning until all the spent fuel has been moved out of the fuel pool and into dry cask storage. Click here for details to comment on ine: Feb 9 Comment Deadline for EPZ Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Be sure to include Subject: Docket ID NRC-2014-0260 The NRC has its doubts about Entergy’s request for an exemption. 10.24.15: Rutland Herald article: “NRC claims Entergy submits inaccurate information” Entergy does not want to spend another dime on the emergency planning zone (EPZ) – protecting you, me and the elementary school across the street while it moves highly radioactive fuel out of the seven-story pool, or while the dangerous and dirty work of decommissioning the 40 year old reactor takes place. The NRC’s rule is that EPZs stay in effect, but reactor owners ask for an exemption to that rule soon after power is no longer being produced – but while there is still spent fuel in the fuel poo, while it is being moved into dry cask storage, and while the facility is being taken apart. The NRC has given EPZ exemptions every time the owners have asked. What can you do? Four Massachusetts towns have taken action. Town officials in Gill, Bernardston, Greenfield and Warwick are opposing the exemption request. Organize some friends, draft some language, and ask your town officials to sign a similar letter or pass a resolution. The letter submitted by Gill and contact info for Greenfield are in our “Towns take action of the EPZ post here. At the 12.18.14 meeting of NDCAP Chris Recchia, chair of NDCAP and Commissioner of the VT Dept. of Public Service, said that the state would be “actively opposing” Entergy’s request to the NRC for an exemption. Support the state’s efforts; send Recchia a big THANKS! (Contact info for Recchia and other officials is below. ) Background: VtDigger 11.12.14 10.23.14: NRC questions Entergy on limiting EPZ (Springfield Republican editorial 4.23.14 (US Senators Letter to NRC 05.02.14) ] RADIOACTIVE WASTE Entergy needs to receive a Certificate of Public Good from the Public Service Board for the new dry cask storage pad. CAN recommends that the Certificate include a condition requiring the emergency planning zone remain in effect until all the waste is secured in storage. Learn a bit more here, then contact the PSB. Read more here and here then write your local legislators and the contacts below – demand they pressure the NRC. Public safety can’t be accomplished by a rubber stamp. LEGISLATION Plymouth is host to the Pilgrim nuke, is also owned by Entergy, and is on the NRC’s list of worst performing plants in the US. Read more about Pilgrim www.CapeDownders.org and www.Pilgrim Coalition.org Citizens of Massachusetts: there are four bills before the Legislature on nuclear power. Please ask your state representative or senator to co-sponsor or support the bills. More information is here. NATIONAL NUCLEAR ACTION NIRS published a paper in September 2014, “Killing the Competition,” about Exelon & Entergy efforts to squeeze blood more money out of ratepayers & Public Utility Commissions, and block to renewables. Good reading, good graphics, and good background. Safe & Green Campaign members were among the hundreds who testified before the NRC opposing its “Waste Confidence” policy. A federal court said without Yucca Mountain, NRC has to prove waste can be stored safely. So the NRC has decided that on-site storage – even in fuel pools! – is safe. On 9.29.14 safe energy advocates filed a petition protesting NRC’s arrogant defiance of the court. Here’s how you can support them. http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/wasteconfidence.htm



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