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

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?