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- N.H. forms group to coordinate on Vermont Yankee shutdown (8/31/13)
New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan has formed a working group of state officials in response to the planned closing and decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.
- Vermont Yankee: State will try to push decommissioning (8/28/13)
MONTPELIER — After battling for years to shutter the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the Legislature finally got what it wanted Tuesday, albeit not as a result of the laws it enacted to force the issue.
- Power grid unaffected by Vermont Yankee closing (8/27/13)
- NH mulls impact of the closing of Vermont Yankee in 2014 (8/27/13)
Entergy Corp. will permanently shut its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2014 after battling for years with state officials to keep the 41-year-old reactor in service.
- Report: Millstone nuclear power plant vulnerable to terrorist attack (8/16/13)
A new report has identified the Millstone nuclear power plant in Waterford as one of 11 reactor sites in the country that are the most vulnerable to terrorist attack similar to those against the United States on Sept. 11. 2001
- Vermont Yankee fight brewing: Dismantling reactor (8/28/13)
BRATTLEBORO -- The announcement that the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is closing brought cheers from nuclear critics and anguish from the plant's defenders, but a new fight is brewing over how long its owners should be given to dismantle the reactor.
- Vermont Yankee: Reactions in Windham County run gamut (8/28/13)
VERNON — The parking lot at Nesbitt’s Portside Tavern was full and overflowing onto Governor Hunt Road just down the road from Vermont Yankee’s nuclear power plant Tuesday afternoon, full of workers who had been told hours earlier their well-paying jobs would disappear next year
- Entergy announces Yankee will shut down in late 2014 (8/27/13)
- Pilgrim nuclear plant gets manual shutdown after circuit-breaker tripped (8/23/13)
Officials at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth were forced to manually shut the facility down Thursday after a power outage disabled the water pumps used to cool the site’s nuclear reactor.
- Vermont Yankee focus shifts to Public Service Board after appeal court ruling (8/14/13)
Appeals court: Legislature overstepped authority regarding Vermont Yankee