Howard Shaffer: Vermont’s nuclear power plans

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Howard Shaffer, PE, who is a retired nuclear engineer who worked on the start-up at Vermont Yankee, and again later through Yankee Atomic Electric Co., Nuclear Services Division. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and was their 2001 Congressional Fellow.A recent commentary “Vermont’s plans to dump on Nevada” illustrates the extremes of the political debate over climate, energy, nuclear power and Vermont Yankee. Two differen