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Restart the plants clean told of cracked displaced those who live in the shadow of dyspepsia see any problem can be alarming i dont give it a whole line of thought that once in a while when you hear something wrong like that the concern should. Be Nuclear Regulatory commission is monitoring the situation. Indian Point Nuclear Energy Center in a condition no one wants to see with black smoke pouring out of these photos were posted on social media as responders on site ones plus these firefighters nearby like went in to find a transformer turning. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo came to see the response up close for himself this was a relatively minor situation but when youre told your brother Nuclear Power really minor situations. Radioactive tritium is leaking from 3 quarters. Of all u. S. Commercial Nuclear Power sites and a cancer causing material often seeps into groundwater from corroded buried hyping thats what the Associated Press concluded after a yearlong investigation. Southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 7 o 3 Nuclear Powered by a good landing in San Diego County has been offline for months because of a mechanical bill. That led to trace amounts of radiation being really bad just the latest in a number of environmental problems examined over and over. Vernon 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 of the state of vermont they think of dairy farms. In fields they think of maple trees. They think of rivers and pristine lakes. And weve 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 past that. And. Have no no no no no the threat of my age out has to go right. Oh no no. He just has to go. Out and say we know. There is no source of energy in this world that doesnt have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very 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 had 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 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 worry about the point of being here. I live 70 miles from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or. Might happen in that plan 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. Would lose my home 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 organizing to be done our area and thats the way i have lived my life im frances crow. And i live in northampton massachusetts i 93 years out. And ive been involved in trying to say no to this finding of the adam and all of the consequences of it since night to in 45 when i heard about. The rape because i am a member of the shut it down Authentic Group a group of women that came together to shut down. With our batteries and action. Is that hot yes. We may once a month we have a pot like hear my house and wave figure out what were going to do and then we do it. Vermont yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no clare power plant and if there is that accident at all by this area of knowing good and and maybe all of new anger and 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 it said 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee for a minute 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 for a minute 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. Im going to fulfill the repeated promises ok politics to the people and come on you know weve all bots to. Be ready for a. Pretty good burka now you want to 1st crack that. No. Call. Up. 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More trouble for Vermont Yankee a concrete trench of the planters unexpectedly filling up with radioactive water radioactive water discovered in a concrete ditch at the Nuclear Plant contains high levels of tritium the trivium found at the plant is a 100 times the level deemed acceptable by the Nuclear Regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high. Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says this is yet another indication the aging play out should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects so 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 as Parent Company says it was miscommunication nothing more the radioactive warder contained tritium lots of tritium but it also contained other isotopes he contained strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium 137 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 trivium and all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. Why is the treaty and really 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 for my yankee this problem is countrywide maybe worldwide. We were told Crystal Clear that there were no buried underground pipes that contain radioactivity how many other plants. Do not have underground you know there are not. I asked for an obscure report i got it and im reading and i said oh my god theres persian underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was an underground piping yes you ben misstatements have been given yes thats right i was stonewall what has happened that Vermont 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 state house your word is all you got to live by we have a lot of going and 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 4 in this area so that we can triangulate and pinpoint the source of the leak by obviously the highest concentration of 28 in 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 to entergy its certainly on an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a trivium 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. Maybe im. Gonna walk oh. Oh oh oh oh we. Werent on 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 up really appreciate the opportunity to have democracy ally in action are walking through the state. I am speaking on behalf of walkers who today completed a 126 mile 11. A 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 the moderates not to a new license step or my yankee and thats how i will go. There was an intense level of organizing behalf of the citizen activists. We held public forums. Your senators match and. 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 we gauged 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. Is in vermont best interest to operate Vermont Yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. If you dont think that leaking tritium and cobol 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 then i dont know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with a Nuclear Power has a place in the 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 match like just a secretary please call the roll to start. Another star yes and a star will see us 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 surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. The Nuclear Powers a hell of a way to boil water. Really happens inside a Nuclear Reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process gives off an enormous amount of heat does boil water make some steam turn a turbine and generator and electricity comes out but whats left behind after you do you have use that electricity by 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 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 is going to dimensions like the no follow scale so instead of having a huge Nuclear Power plant now the 1st really trying to get young people excited about the energy and power in different places so its a very much more local. There is a Surplus Campaign is a student led arena station based out of Middlebury College we got together right after the senate voted to close relying because we were wondering whats coming next what are we going to replace for a minute you may. Be feeling the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of kilos rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protecting only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were 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 full streets in belfast i think more than a 100 innocent civilians were. As the you can see in years and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and integrates which the collusion was involved in some of those cases the killers would lead to be named. Beginning i think it went to the very very top i think it is. The water where all the taishan so you. Give the go ahead. This is an invalid you know that. 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