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    Vermont Yankee was an electricity generating nuclear power plant, located in the town of Vernon, Vermont, in the northeastern United States. It generated...
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    Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station was a nuclear power plant in Rowe, Massachusetts, located on the Deerfield River in the town of Rowe in western Massachusetts...
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    Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station, Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. There have...
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  • Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 435 U.S. 519 (1978), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that...
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    Policy. In February 2010, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 to block operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant after 2012, citing radioactive...
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    the site of the now-defunct Vermont Yankee, the state of Vermont's only nuclear power plant, which closed in December 2014. The town was chartered in...
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    The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, United States,...
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  • Vermont Yankee, the state continued to rely on nuclear fission power imported from Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in NH. In May 2009, Vermont created...
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    Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. In February 2010, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 against allowing the PSB to consider re-certifying the Vermont...
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    Island accident in 1979. Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since...
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  • 2020. "PRIS – Reactor Details". StarTribune.com, WILSON RING Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant ends operations after 42 years of producing electricity Archived...
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  • Arnold Gundersen (category People associated with nuclear power)
    reactor and has expressed concerns about the operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. He served as an expert witness in the investigation of the...
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    Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the NRC approved a 20-year extension for the license of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, although the Vermont state legislature...
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    common around military and nuclear facilities. An example is the berm proposed for Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vermont. At Baylor Ballpark, a baseball...
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    innovation cannot eliminate the risk of human errors in nuclear plant operation. The nuclear power industry has improved the safety and performance of reactors...
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    Kewaunee in Wisconsin. Vermont Yankee, in Vernon, was closed on Dec. 29, 2014. In March 2017, the last remaining U.S.-based new nuclear company, Westinghouse...
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  • facility was built to balance the supply from the nearby Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. The plant was built entirely underground, and located about 5...
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  • closure of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vermont. The film features peace activist Frances Crowe. Filming for Power Struggle began...
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  • The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant generated 620 MW of base load electricity during years 1972–2014. Vermont had no operating utility-scale plants that...
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  • court in 1978 (see Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. With permission to build a nuclear station in the U.S...
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  • University of Vaasa (Vaasan yliopisto), Finland Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Vernon, Vermont, United States VY Canis Majoris, an enormous star...
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    Frances Crowe (category American anti–nuclear weapons activists)
    women were arrested for non-violent civil disobedience at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. She was also arrested in Washington DC at the Veterans for...
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    the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant had an extended maintenance period approaching. Vermont has one natural gas distribution company, Vermont Gas Systems...
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  • New England Coalition (category Anti–nuclear power movement)
    to operate at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Since 2014 it has been working towards requiring the owners of Vermont Yankee to implement a hardened...
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  • Borah is the co-founder of Race to Replace Vermont Yankee, a campaign that aims to replace nuclear power in Vermont with clean energy. Emily Cunningham Julia...
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    Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Opponents believe that nuclear power poses many threats to people's health and environment such as the risk of nuclear weapons...
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    Nuclear power has various environmental impacts, both positive and negative, including the construction and operation of the plant, the nuclear fuel cycle...
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    some Yankee residents considered the French Canadians to have intermarried too frequently with Native Americans. In 1970, the population of Vermont stood...
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  • vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate attack is of concern in the area of nuclear safety and security. Nuclear power plants, civilian research...
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    convened, but no charges were filed. A cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant collapsed on August 22, 2007. There were no fatalities. On...
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