Announced that Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant shut down nuclear critic and suffering brought cheers from the factory guard, but already a new battle is brewing owners should be given to removing long reactor.
Entergy Corporation's news Tuesday that Vermont's only nuclear power plant will close at the end of its current fuel cycle draws mixed reaction, even in some individuals.
"I heard before last, I hope they will turn off and now I have mixed feelings, said:" Joan Buttrick of Dummerston, eating lunch Top Mountain BBQ, BBQ joint venture plant from a few miles away. Her lunch companion, Roger 威尔肯吉尔 Crawford said, "We won, why I do not think it be better?"
Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce executive director, Jerry Goldberg, ranging from Gov. Peter Shumlin officials said, the first order of business will help the plant's 630 employees find new jobs, closed in October 2014 .
, "Goldberg said:" The replacement is not the right word. "I think this is to reinterpret this society is how it works."
Raymond Shadis nuclear watchdog group New England Coalition and senior elected officials in Vermont also pointed out that a possible big new battle to - retired. This is a process in which a reactor components, allowed to cool, and then deleted, restored to its pre-nuclear states on similar sites.
Entergy CEO Leo Denault said that if the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed that when it closes, the plant will be placed in "safe storage", that federal regulations allow it to be sealed for 60 years, and its radioactive components to cool down in order to remove it.
However, the left-leaning independent senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders, are those who say, as he said, "Entergy companies must as soon as possible decommissioning process." He and Senator Patrick Leahy said they will push NRC requires time to do the work.
Close Second announcement may have exceeded any nuclear power plant in the country's most high-pitched protracted war.
41 years, since the Vermont Yankee split its first atom Bank Connecticut River southeast corner of the country in Vernon, Vermont grown into a bastion of leftist politics, hippie capitalists handmade ice cream manufacturers and breweries and organic gardener, one of the most strong - sometimes effective - anti-nuclear groups in the country gather.
When Louisiana, Entergy purchased Vermont Yankee in 2002 from a group of New England utilities have previously obtained from the National Public Services Authority license to operate the reactor 10 years - until its initial 40-year term expiring in 2012 three federal month licenses.
It soon appeared, the country's decision-makers - particularly the Liberal Democrats controlled the legislature - and Entergy Vermont Yankee should be allowed in 2012 after the sharp differences of opinion.
Legislature passed a series of laws, closed factories, including a measure known as the House and Senate vote is to allow Public Service Department issued a new factory in the state in 2012 after the business license.
Vermont Senate voted 26-4, four Republicans joined the majority of Democrats, for continuing operations in 2010. House of Representatives did not take any action, and the country's fight record was in 2012 after the factory of the future. NRC grants plants need a federal license in 2011.
Entergy sued in federal court, saying the motivation Vermont plant closure of nuclear safety concerns, some of the NRC has sole jurisdiction. Two won in U.S. District Court in Vermont and the second session of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
But anti-nuclear activists and the state government can not do anything, do the U.S. energy market, Entergy company officials said on Tuesday. Shale gas boom brought about by low natural gas prices make it difficult to compete as nuclear power generation methods. The fate of the factory, coupled with tough rules of the regional market for regional power dispatch agency ISO New England, sealed, Denault said.
 



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