Vermont Forced to Keep Dangerous Nuke Plant Running
An aging nuclear plant with a long history of leaks is being kept open by the Obama Administration against the wishes of the people of Vermont.
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vermont is a disaster waiting to happen. As one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country it is past its due date for decommissioning and so the State of Vermont wants it shut down and the contaminated site cleaned up.
The US federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which is an industry funded booster group with federal authority, has ruled that the plant will remain open. The NRC claims to have legal authority over States and can decide where plants will be built and which ones will be allowed to keep running. The NRC is corrupt and has covered up dangerous releases of radiation and does the bidding of the nuclear power industry. It does not act in the best interests of the American people even though its publicly stated mission is “to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment.”. In reality it only protects the profits of a few powerful corporations.
When NRC Chair Dale Klein retired from the NRC he went straight to work for nuclear power giant "Southern Company" as the company accepted the taxpayer hand-out of $8.3 billion to expand an obsolte nuclear power plant in Geeorgia.
Fascism is when corporations control government. In the case of nuclear power corporations, they have their own federal agency that subverts state's rights and they get tax payer loans and hand-outs to pay for the construction and decommissioning of obsolete and grossly over-priced plants that endanger public health while producing the country's most expensive power.
Anyone taking a photo of a nuclear power plant can be charged with terrorism.
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An aging nuclear plant with a long history of leaks is being kept open by the Obama Administration against the wishes of the people of Vermont.
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vermont is a disaster waiting to happen. As one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country it is past its due date for decommissioning and so the State of Vermont wants it shut down and the contaminated site cleaned up.
The US federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which is an industry funded booster group with federal authority, has ruled that the plant will remain open. The NRC claims to have legal authority over States and can decide where plants will be built and which ones will be allowed to keep running. The NRC is corrupt and has covered up dangerous releases of radiation and does the bidding of the nuclear power industry. It does not act in the best interests of the American people even though its publicly stated mission is “to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment.”. In reality it only protects the profits of a few powerful corporations.
When NRC Chair Dale Klein retired from the NRC he went straight to work for nuclear power giant "Southern Company" as the company accepted the taxpayer hand-out of $8.3 billion to expand an obsolte nuclear power plant in Geeorgia.
Fascism is when corporations control government. In the case of nuclear power corporations, they have their own federal agency that subverts state's rights and they get tax payer loans and hand-outs to pay for the construction and decommissioning of obsolete and grossly over-priced plants that endanger public health while producing the country's most expensive power.
Anyone taking a photo of a nuclear power plant can be charged with terrorism.
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