Wednesday was quite a dramatic day in the Capitol. The (small) Senate chamber was filled to capacity to hear the debate on whether or not to relicense Vermont Yankee. There were many reasons to vote NO on relicensing Yankee: the Enexus spinoff, the Tritium leak into the Connecticut River, the price being offered for future power, the trustworthiness of Entergy Louisiana…
In the end, I am glad that the negative vote cut across party lines.
Here’s a picture of me speaking on the floor in opposition to (I kid you not) building a second nuclear power plant on Vermont soil. I commented that it was strange that those Senators who believed four years of testimony was insufficient to make the decision on the existing plant would propose approving a new nuclear plant with roughly five minutes of debate in front of the TV crews.