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With High Levels of Radiation Leaking from Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant, What about Vermont Yankee?

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Mon, 2011-03-28 07:55 — admin

Only days before Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant began to fail, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommissioned Vermont Yankee for another 20 years.  As Vermonters and their state government consider the implications of recommissioning the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, which is the same design as the Fukushima plant built around the same time by GE, many Japanese are questioning their future as high levels of radiation are leaking from the Fukushima plant into the air, soil, and water surrounding the plant. 

Now radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has been found as far away as Massachusetts. 

 

What are your views about the Vermont's decisions in the coming days regarding the state acceptance or denial of Vermont Yankee's recommissioning?

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Mon, 2011-03-28 07:56 — mdmcdonald

 

Highly radioactive water has been found for the first time outside one of the reactor buildings at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, officials say.

The leak in a tunnel linked to the No 2 reactor has raised fears of radioactive liquid seeping into the environment.

Earlier, Japan's government strongly criticised the plant's operator, Tepco, over mistaken radiation readings.

Officials said the radiation scare inside the No 2 reactor was caused by a partial meltdown of fuel rods.

For More Information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12881015

Mon, 2011-03-28 08:00 — mdmcdonald

(Reuters) - Trace amounts of radioactive iodine linked to Japan's crippled nuclear power station have turned up in rainwater samples as far away as Massachusetts during the past week, state officials said on Sunday.

For more information:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/27/nuclear-japan-massachusetts-idUSN2713732220110327

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