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In 1978, the Vermont Yankee reactor was the subject of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., an important United States Supreme Court administrative law case which ruled that courts cannot impose procedures upon the NRC as this exceeds their power of judicial review.
This was about 20 percent more than the generation by Vermont's utility-scale photovoltaic plants. [1] Vermont's 99.9% share of electricity from renewable sources was the highest in the United States during 2019. Vermont had the second lowest population after Wyoming, and total electricity consumption was the lowest among all 50 states.
Generation III reactors are safer than older reactors like the GE MAC 1 at Fukushima, Vermont Yankee and other plants around the world. But after a decade in which the federal government policy promoted this new version of nuclear power, only one Generation III+ reactor project has been approved in the United States.
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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Its 180 MWe pressurized water reactor operated from 1961 to 1991. [1] It produced electricity for New England consumers. The site is referred to as "Yankee-Rowe" or simply "Rowe", to avoid confusion with Vermont Yankee, another nuclear power station located in nearby Vernon, Vermont. The decommissioning of the site was completed in 2007.
The town of Vernon, Vermont, chose to scrap its police force in 2015 after the Vermont Yankee plant shut down in 2014, putting a strain on its $2 million budget. Police services were taken over by ...