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.