State sees ‘significant risk’ in Vermont Yankee sale

The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.VERNON – State officials are expressing serious doubts about the proposed sale of Vermont Yankee, contending that the deal “raises numerous, thus-far-unanalyzed health, safety and environmental concerns.”
Those concerns surfaced in documents filed this week by the Vermont Public Service Department and the attorney general’s office. The state agencies want to intervene in the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s rev