Hundreds gather in Brattleboro to protest Vermont Yankee nuclear plant

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[matt04]

ore than 1,000 people turned out Saturday on the Brattleboro town green for a rally to show support for decommissioning the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, one of the oldest nuclear power plants in the country.

The event included speeches by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Peter Shumlin, both of whom are calling for the state's wishes to be honored and for the 40-year-old Vernon reactor to be shut down.

New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. owns the plant, whose state permit expired in March. The Vermont Senate voted to decommission the plant. But the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the plant a 20-year license extension anyway, leaving the plant in legal limbo. In January, a federal judge issued an order that allows the plant to continue operating while the case plays out in court.

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"(Let's) say to the aging nuclear power industry," Shumlin said, "shut them down, go home, tell the truth, we're moving on, we're moving out , you go first, we're not going to rest until you're gone."

[GreyHoundSailor]

We were almost rid of Shummy this past weekend; if the black bear was just a wee bit faster.

[Calvin Locke]

Ya know, after that last NE black out, then-Gov. Pataki of NY wanted to install 18 or 20 NG powered emergency mini power stations around NYC.

"Not in my 'hood" was the response.

I lived in MA for a while. Within 10 miles of Seabrook Station, at one time, too. Rarely thought about it.

One guy involved in the anti-nuke protests told me that people that lived South of Vernon, VT, and North of Rowe, MA had to know which plant was declaring an emergency in order to flee in the safest direction.

[BfloGuy]

The leading cause of lung cancer in third world countries is...wood burning.

I don't believe that for a heartbeat. They don't know. They conduct their polls and surveys and they concoct some correlation and present it as ersatz proof. The fact is they don't know what causes lung cancer any more than they know what causes asthma.

Coal and CO2 are just the latest, stylish scapegoats.

[matt04]

Or business/infrastructure that have critical needs for power could install these, at their own expense.

[editor-surveyor]

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Average Vermont IQ : 68
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[editor-surveyor]

>> “One guy involved in the anti-nuke protests...” <<

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Only guy stupider than him is the one that listens to him.

[chimera]

It's true. Bjorn Lomborg noted it in his book, with the appropriate citation. The was a study done by the Australian Air Quality Group that looked at baseline cases in third world countries where wood was not a significant component of biofuels vs. countries where it was. The lung cancer rate was something like a 433% increase for the wood-burning countries. And it was not just polling. There was quite extensive study of blood chemistry and histopathology of ling tissues. The effects of PAHs were quite devastating at the cellular level. Remember, we're not talking about using the fireplace every now and then for a cozy fire in winter. We're talking about continuous use of a carbon-based fuel, burned in a relatively inefficient manner, in closed environments with little fresh air exchange.

[BfloGuy]

It's true. Bjorn Lomborg noted it in his book, with the appropriate citation.

Thanks for that. It certainly sounds like valid scientific research. My post was too over-wrought (something I usually preach against here,) but I'm so accustomed to meta-studies and simple correlation studies that prove nothing, that I've become jaded.

[chimera]

I hear you. Skepticism is often a prudent approach in these areas. And you’re right, as a general rule, correlation does not prove causation. You need additional evidence apart from correlation to establish the causal link. In this case, they have it, but in many cases of junk science, they don’t.