[CPEO-BIF] "Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant site is two cleanup projects"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yankee site testing is criticized 


By SUSAN SMALLER
Rutland Herald (VT)
October 28, 2017 


BRATTLEBORO - The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant site is two cleanup projects - a massive nuclear cleanup and demolition project and, afterward, a more traditional brownfields site project.

And while the promise has always been that the Vernon site would be returned to a “green field,” after the radiological components are demolished and hauled away, Entergy Nuclear and Yankee’s potential new owner, NorthStar, are going back and forth with state regulators over how “clean” the site needs to be.

GEI Consultants Inc. of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which runs a technical-assistance program for brownfields projects associated with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, say Entergy and NorthStar are not doing the basic investigation to determine what pollution exists at the site.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.rutlandherald.com/articles/yankee-site-testing-is-criticized/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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