Entergy to Close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

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10. Relatively few on permanent staff in Vernon

Decommisioning will be much the same as a maintainence outage, and the workers who do that are spread across the region - and are likely working at their trades anyway, just not getting the fat money from their occasional nuke work.

Entergy blew it, pure and simple - cut back too much on maintainence, ran sloppy, and figured they could get whatever out of the local politicans. Not in Vermont.......

The generating plant may be savable, but it would have to be expanded and reconfigured to make efficent use of another power source like natural gas or coal - whether it is economical to do so is a big question. VT Yankee is not far from a major rail line, FWIW.