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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Decommissioning Panel and Appointments: Good, Bad and Ugly


Decommissioning Panel and Appointments: Good, Bad and Ugly


As Vermont Yankee decommissioning approaches, local politicians are busily appointing members to the new "Decommissioning Citizen Advisory Panel."  To nobody's surprise, plant opponents are the people being appointed (the bad).  However, Vermont state appointed a "nuclear engineer" who is actually a real nuclear engineer this time
(the good). 

And what's "ugly"?  The old "Vermont Nuclear Safety Advisory Panel" meetings were ugly and chaotic. That panel has morphed into the new Decommissioning Panel. Angwin thinks the new panel's meetings are likely to be equally unpleasant.

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