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Is the host. For mine a key. Part of me in. The town of learning is a very close knit town. The people really care about one another. And were more than just neighbors its a great community. When people think a state of vermont they think of dairy farms. In fields they think of maple trees. They think of rivers and pristine lakes. And we got a Nuclear Power plant right on the southern border. For my yankee welcome to romano. If people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont are vermont brand is done. To drink our milk whos going to want to whos going to want to use our syrup whos going to want to come here and drive pay. That. Oh no. No. No no. No. Not yankees unsafely no doubt. There is no source of energy in this world that doesnt have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very low so i feel its a very Safe Technology our job is to protect Public Health and safety and never have an accident that jeopardizes Public Health or safety so thats with us every day people like me come in here in the 650. 00 men and women that work here that is our focus the safe operation of this plant. I live right across the street from Vermont Yankee and theyve always been a Good Neighbor i have children that go to the school which is also right across the street from my yankee. You dont move to vernon and live in vernon if youre worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my one to my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow flies its less than a half mile from the point. Where we dont work. I live 70 miles from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or accident that might happen. Is that if it was a serious incident most likely i would no longer be able to live in my home the whole area would be contaminated if you look from fukushima. I would lose my community where ive been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place will be a complete disaster. People shouldnt have to live with that sort of risk. Thats not acceptable. I have a passion for justice. And theres always a lot of work to be done our area and thats the way i have lived my life im francis crowe. And i live in northampton massachusetts and navy 3 years. And ive been involved in trying to say no to this fighting of the adam and all of the consequences of it since night in 45 when i heard about. The raid. I am a member of the shut it down authentic your group a group of women that came together to shut down. With our batteries and action. Its that hot yes. We meet once a month we have a pot like here or my house and wave figure out what were going to do and then we do it for my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no prayer power plant and if there is that accident at all by this area of knowing good and and maybe all of new england uninhabitable for generations. You started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 in 2009 they applied to the Nuclear Regulatory commission to get another 20 years on their license so they could run instead 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee from a yankee and see if it was reliable enough to run for true 20 more years so i was chairman of the Oversight Panel thats looked into Vermont Yankee in 2009 we found 80 problems but if they cleaned up the problems we all signed a report saying reminding he could run for another 20 years. There a year later we found out that they were lying to us entergy on a number of occasions including under oath before our Public Service board. Denied the existence of. Underground piping carrying radioactive material. The republicans have a reputation as knowing more about money than the democrats but the democrats are always very confusing and so Bernie Sanders is just out of a tradition hes talking about socialism which again is a its a its a model based on a in comprehensible. Non existant theory about money. The Russian State Television Propaganda Machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information war. That can change the world. You tube videos the west russia today its the longest network. Pressure brushwood russia russia and russia today is. Believed to be there which means russia there and i really have to join to see you then on r t. 4 are so proud and still. Are just getting the number. Why have you not shut down our t. V. 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Mistakes happen absolutely condemn medicals have made things better by far they could have done they should have made it better but that does not take away from the flag they have stood up to run the dictator who was bloodthirsty in participated in the murder of and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis are millions and more of the iran then the invasion of kuwait and so on. Most trusted news source says 3. More trouble for a Vermont Yankee a concrete trench at the plant is unexpectedly filling up with radioactive water radioactive water discovered in a concrete ditch at the Nuclear Plant contains high levels of tritium the tritium found at the plant is 100. 00 times the level deemed acceptable by the Nuclear Regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen says this is get another indication the aging play at should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects underground pipes that Vermont Yankee originally claimed did not exist until after the 1st leak was discovered gunderson was on the public Oversight Panel made false statements. Parent company says it was miscommunication nothing more. To ward or contain tritium lots of trivium but it also contained other isotopes he contained strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium 137. 00 which is the muscle seeker causes Heart Disease they contain cobalt 60 which is a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes minimal all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the Connecticut River through the human all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. Why is the treaty in leak of concern to us ground water down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened something needs to be done right now i believe that miners on say. We have buried corroded pipes that are way beyond their design life this problem is not only are mine yankee this problem is country wide maybe worldwide. We were told Crystal Clear that there were no buried underground pipes that contain radioactivity how many other plants. Do not have undergone ip do you know there are none. I asked for an obscure report i got it and i read and i said oh my god theres a bird in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you bet and misstatements have been given yes thats right i was stonewall what has happened that remind yankee is a breach of trust that cannot be tolerated in order to move forward on whether or not the plan will continue to operate questions need to be answered changes need to be made and the trust of vermonters must be restored we were now being lied to and lied to under oath on record and in vermont and in vermont and especially in the statehouse. Your word is all youve got to live by we have a lot of to do and we have to rebuild Public Confidence and trust were operating a Nuclear Power plant and people expect that you know it is an Industrial Facility you are going to have incidents thats just a fact of life. We drilled approximately 23 wells in this area so that we can triangulate and pinpoint the source of the leak by obviously the highest concentration of truly a good water in this particular well we just did not do a good job of presenting information complete and Accurate Information to the vermont Public Service board and thats unacceptable dandruff certainly on an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a tritium leak to groundwater. Adds to a lack of confidence weve said numerous times we apologize for that were embarrassed about that. That shouldnt have happened. In a im. Gonna walk oh. 00000000. Oh oh oh mars were used to all the different seasons you put out some extra clothes its winter obviously that raise certain challenges but its not a problem it happen to be january so thats when youre walking. Out walking because it feels like a powerful way to stand up mass said that its time to shut the plant down. Were really excited to be here were looking forward to meeting with our legislators in a little while and i really appreciate the opportunity to have democracy al in action are walking through the state. I am speaking on behalf of walkers who today completed a 126 mile 11. Day walk. And now id like to present you with a petition to the members of the ramada Legislature Please retire Vermont Yankee on schedule no later than march of 2012 and a copy to you thank you peter. Thank you to the marchers thanks to all of you in this room for coming to the peoples house the greatest democracy in america and letting us hear your voices on this important issue i have concluded that it is in the best interests of vermont hurts not to renew the license separ my yankee and thats how i will vote. There was an intense level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists. We held public forums. Your senators match. That we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote norma some of the letters to the editor and gauge people from all across the state and all across the political spectrum to call for our legislature to vote no on continued operation of Vermont Yankee beyond march of 2012. Spasmed i just want to wrap up the debate. This is in vermont spece interests to operate Vermont Yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. If you dont think that leaking tritium and cobalt into the ground water and the Connecticut River and the environment of the state of vermont that every single for mano cherishes and holds dear that i dont know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with a Nuclear Power has a place in a future of energy in america. We can debate that 2 accounts come what we should not be debating is whether we can extend the life of our e. G. Nuclear power plants beyond their design life this is crazy stuff and i felt very strongly that it was the wrong thing to do for a math like justice secretary please call the roll to stunt under the stars yes and the star will say yes under fire. From the lifeboats no. Theres a series of us here both the ears for the nice 26. I think the senate voted 26. 00 to 4. 00 in favor of closing Vermont Yankee its really a testament to all of the work that citizens did over the course of several years over the course of decades our voice as the people as as as the people of vermont is what matters. Well you know we were just. Pointed out that surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. To Nuclear Power is a hell of a way to boil water. What really happens inside a Nuclear Reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat does it boil water make some steam turn to turbine and generator and electricity comes out but whats left behind after youve you have use that electricity or these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. That is toxic poisonous to humans for 250000 years i keep saying that number 250000 years its ridiculous its mind boggling id be the 1st to acknowledge that is the achilles heel of the Nuclear Industry nuclear waste. There is no answer to this they keep telling us oh no technology will take Care Technology technology is not taking care of it and if you cannot take care of the waste and you cannot manage the ways then the only responsible thing is to stop producing the ways. And then you bring in here. Where registering anybody is going to mention like i know smaller scale so instead of having a huge Nuclear Power plant theyll be 3 really trying to get young people excited about the energy and power in different places so its a much more local. There is Surplus Campaign is a student led arena station based out of Middlebury College we got together right after the senate voted to close for mining because we were wondering whats coming next what are we going to replace for a minute q but. Do you feel that the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. So isnt of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military. Lives every song came to a complete. Be instructed you know told to shut up to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life and he screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birth thinking if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u. S. Military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished them the offender and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry. This is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats men or women. The point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge things its because its a benefit to the person who is buying it and thats the audiology to education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i wouldnt want to live in a Society Without doctors or engineers all saw what happened without economists. Saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that were ignoring that the skill bias we need for a Sophisticated Society and putting the burden of that skill on the individuals what we turned it into is just now the trying institution. Become a form of a version of a real estate scam that is not the bisons for a functional saudi. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage street thugs of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks only population of tens of flows in support forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was that the or you see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast i think more than a 100 innocent civilians will. As the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the collusion was involved in some of those cases the killers were delayed to be named. I think it went to the very very top i think it. Was here where all the taste since you bought was. Give the go ahead. And. Right. Good. Luck. Hopes for peace in afghanistan where the u. S. And the taliban are expected to sign a deal to end americas longest war. Plus the family of u. S. 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