Vermont Yankee cleanup concerns ‘unfounded,’ companies say

Vermont Yankee’s reactor. Photo courtesy of Vermont YankeeVERNON – Under fire by critics in recent weeks, the current and potential owners of Vermont Yankee are defending their plans to decommission the Vernon nuclear plant.
In more than 130 pages of documents filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, attorneys for Entergy and NorthStar Group Services use phrases like “bald assertions,” “unfounded claims” and “pure speculation” to describe conc