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The plant's initial operating license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was the subject of a lawsuit that produced the U.S. Supreme Court's 1978 decision Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., in which the Supreme Court set forth a significant doctrine in American administrative law.
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant generated 620 MW of base load electricity during years 1972–2014. [5] Vermont had no operating utility-scale plants that used fissile material as a fuel in 2019. [1]
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant was commissioned in 1972. [20] Vermont through the 2010s had the highest rate of nuclear-generated power in the nation, 73.7 percent. [21] Vermont was also one of only two states with no coal-fired power plants, which nuclear proponents often cited as a reason to keep it open. [18]
Entergy announced today that, despite regulatory approval through 2032 and $400 million in investments over the past decade, it is retiring its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Q4 2013.
This article was written by Oilprice.com -- the leading provider of energy news in the world The beginning of 2014 marks the final year of operation for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant ...
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Vernon is a town in Windham County, Vermont, in the United States. The population was 2,192 at the 2020 census. [3] Vernon is the site of the now-defunct Vermont Yankee, the state of Vermont's only nuclear power plant, which closed in December 2014. [4]
Case history; Prior: Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc. v. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n, 547 F.2d 633 (D.C. Cir. 1976); cert. granted, 429 U.S. 1090 (1977).: Holding; While federal agencies are free to grant additional procedural rights in the exercise of their discretion, reviewing courts are generally not free to impose them if the agencies have not chosen to grant them.