The Entergy Corporation will
be back in court next week, defending its right to keep operating the Vermont Yankee
nuclear plant. But as Entergy continues its
legal battle, a financial firm says Yankee is a drag on the company’s finances.
Twenty-four anti-nuclear and environmental
groups are joining the states of Vermont and New York in calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do
a more thorough study of the impacts of storing spent nuclear fuel on the
grounds of nuclear power plants.
A
federal appeals court has set a date in mid-January for oral arguments in a
case that tests the limits of a state’s authority to regulate nuclear power.
An anti-nuclear group says Entergy Vermont Yankee has disobeyed Public Service Board orders by
operating without a new state permit, and it’s asking the Vermont Supreme Court to order the immediate shutdown of the plant.
A jury has found six Massachusetts women guilty of trespassing at the Vermont Yankee
nuclear power plant last year to protest the continued operation of the
reactor.
A
trial is under way in Vermont for six elderly Massachusetts women accused of trespassing at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power
plant last year to protest the continued operation of the reactor.
A jury
has found six Massachusetts women guilty of trespassing at the
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to protest the continued operation
of the reactor. The women, who range in age from 69 to 93, represented themselves in court.
Both
the state and lawyers for Vermont Yankee now have filed written arguments to a
federal appeals court as the legal battle continues over the future of the
Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.