State sees significant risk in Vermont Yankee sale
VERNON – State officials are expressing serious doubts about the proposed sale of Vermont Yankee, contending that the deal “raises numerous, thus-far-unanalyzed health, safety and environmental concerns.”
Those concerns surfaced in documents filed this week by the Vermont Public Service Department and the attorney general’s office. The state agencies want to intervene in the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s review of the idled plant’s license transfer, and they’re requesting the NRC hold a hearing on the matter.
State officials previously have expressed skepticism about certain aspects of Entergy’s plan to sell the former nuclear plant to NorthStar Group Services for decommissioning. But the new documents detail numerous financial and environmental questions the agencies believe must be addressed before the Vernon property changes hands.
Foremost among those is whether NorthStar will have the money to complete the cleanup properly.
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