Posted on social media as responders on site once plus these firefighters nearby were 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 were told the brother Nuclear Power really minor situation. 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 piping thats what the Associated Press concluded after a year long investigation. Southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 703 Nuclear Power plant good. To san diego county. Ive been offline for a lot because of a mechanical clock that had me thinking that led to trace amounts of radiation being leaked the bad just the latest in a number of environmental cards and i think over the years when. Youre. Old. Old. Old. Old. Old. Old. Old. Old. Well. Known. Earning his post. Mind you keep. On going to. The town of learning this very close knit town. People really care about one another. 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 a maple trees maple syrup. They think of rivers and pristine lakes. And. A Nuclear Power plant right on the southern border. Or my yankee welcome to romano. If people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont are vermont brandis done. To drink our milk whos going to want to whos going to want to use our sear whos going to want to come here and drive past that. Oh no no no this thread my dad has to go right now no yes no no no no not yankees as you know shut it out shout it out there are not yankees im saying we know right now shut down shut it down very much yankee town thats in doubt. 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 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 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 YankeeNuclear Power plant and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or accident that might happen in that plant 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 home and my community where ive been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place it would be a complete does. Asked. 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 work 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 fighting of the atom and all of the consequences of it since night in 45 when i heard about hiroshima on the radio. I am a member of the shut it down Affinity Group a group of women that came together to shut down for me with our batteries and action. Is that hot yes ok we meet once a month we have a pot like here my house and wave figure out what were going to do and then we do it. As 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 and maybe all of new language and uninhabitable for generations. You started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012. 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 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 materials. We go to work. Straight home. He said he had to quit. For good and the. Other the. One. But on the but on. The quickly the so that. Instead of. Running t. M. Must go out youll still be stuck with your muscles from the course but you need. To. 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Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. Most trusted news. Since the channel 3. More trouble for 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 times the level deemed acceptable by the Nuclear Regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high Nuclear ExpertArnie Gundersen says this is yet another indication the aging plant should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in a 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 the radioactive warder contained tritium lots of trivia 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 and a whole bunch of other isotopes animal all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the. Connecticut. Trivium and all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. Why is the treaty and only of concern to us groundwater down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened something needs to be done right now i believe that planners and 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. To not have undergone you know there are none. I asked for an obscure report i got it and i read and i said oh my god theres buried in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you ben misstatements have been given yes thats right i was stonewall what has happened at her mind 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 trotty aged 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 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. Oh. My god were the moderates were used to all the different seasons you put on some extra clothes its winter obviously that raise certain challenges but its not a problem that happen to be january so thats when were walking. I walking because it feels like a powerful way to stand on message 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 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 remark 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 renew the license never mind yankee and thats how i will vote. But there was an intense. Level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists there or we held Public Forums these your senators match. Are key to that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote an enormous amount of 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. Deliberately sort of when. I just want to wrap up the debate. Is in vermonts best interest to operate Vermont Yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. If you dont think that leaking. Into the groundwater 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 the 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 math clicked in a certain. Please call the rule just. Another star yes and the star was under fight. This is a series of years for 26 was when the senate voted 26 to 4 in favor of closing vermont. 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 disappointed with the vote but not surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant did it was understandable. The Nuclear Powers unhealable were to boil water. What really happens inside a Nuclear Reactor is of uranium out of pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat all it does is boil water make some steam turn to turbine and generator and electricity comes out but whats left behind after youve you have the use that electricity by these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. It 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 of 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. To dimensions like a no fly scale so after having a huge new can ever. Be for really trying to get young people excited about the energy and power in different places so its really 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 relying because we were wondering whats coming next what are we going to place for money with. The field and the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. 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