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...Worry about Vermont,” May 8) regarding the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant was full of misinformation that reflected a profound misunderstanding of nuclear plant operations, security, and emergency planning. Zamore not only cited “The Simpsons” but also the Nagasaki bomb and Chernobyl in her effort to discredit Vermont Yankee. The fact is that Vermont Yankee has always operated safely; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspections have rated it at the highest (best) regulatory classification. This is attributable to everyone in the organization having a clear safety focus, making conservative decisions, and doing timely...
Hopefully it will not take another Chernobyl to finally convince people that something needs to change. It may seem as though the dangers posed by nuclear energy are as far away as Ukraine, but if the winds blow just right, radiation from Vermont Yankee may just float down to Cambridge to change your mind...
...lawsuit, filed last week, demands that the Defense Department publish its plans in the Federal Register, provide the opportunity for public comment and conduct a full environmental impact statement on the effect of the explosion. "The Department of Defense appears to have learned nothing from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and the devastating deaths caused to nuclear veterans and downwinders by atmospheric nuclear testing," the suit contends. The June 2 explosion, it added, would contaminate Native American land, "making it unfit for millions of years for an use by the Western Shoshone people or any other human beings." A Defense Department statement...
...ultimate toll of Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear accident, is still unclear. The World Health Organization estimates that 9,700 people will eventually die of the disaster's aftereffects, but Greenpeace last week predicted the total will be nine times higher...
...these days. Nuclear power, written off as dead throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world over the past two decades, is suddenly back in fashion. The public still shudders when recalling the accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later. But with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil spiking at more than $60 per bbl. and fears growing about the lasting impact of greenhouse gases, the outlook for nuclear power today is, well, quite radiant...