As the legal uncertainty
surrounding the Vermont Yankee plant continues, an anti-nuclear group wants
utility regulators to take a time out in order to let the state Supreme Court
resolve some of the issues.
State
officials are worried that detecting new leaks at Vermont Yankee may be difficult because
groundwater monitoring wells at the nuclear plant are already contaminated.
House Speaker Shap Smith discusses the top issues facing the Legislature, VPR’s John Dillon provides analysis on
this week’s court cases involving the continued operation of Vermont Yankee and we hear from the Norwich University Regimental Band.
After a hearing in New York City on Monday, the company that owns Vermont Yankee and its opponents were back in
court on Wednesday in a continuing legal face-off over the future of the
state’s only nuclear plant.
In a rare legal proceeding,
the state Supreme Court is to hear arguments that the Vermont Yankee
nuclear plant is continuing to run in violation of a 2002 order by the
Public Service Board.
Lawyers
for Entergy and the state of Vermont faced off in a federal courtroom in New York on Monday in a case that will determine the state’s
power to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.
State regulators are
demanding answers from Entergy, the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Entergy has won federal
approval to run the plant until 2032. But it still needs a state permit, called
a certificate of public good.