Old. While. Earning his post. Count for my. Time when the climax of the town of arnold is very close to town and. The people really care about one another. And were more than just neighbors to grow. Community. When people think of the state of vermont they think of dairy farms. In fields they think of maple trees. They think of rivers and pristine lakes. And. A Nuclear Power plant right on the southern border. Or my yankee welcome to romano. If people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont are vermont brandis done. To drink our milk whos going to want to whos going to want to use our sear whos going to want to come here and drive past that. You. Know. My. Job right now you know oh no no i am not yankees that has to. Shut up shut up. Not yankees im saying we know right now shut up shop. Very much. There is no source of energy in this world that doesnt have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very low so i feel so very Safe Technology our job is to protect Public Health and safety and never have an accident that jeopardizes Public Health or safety so thats with us every day people like me come in here in the 650 men and women. The work here that is our focus the safe operation of this plant. I live right across the street from Vermont Yankee. Theyve always been a Good Neighbor i had children that go to the school which is also right across the street from my yankee. You dont move to vernon and live in vernon if youre worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow flies its less than a half mile from the point and you know we dont worry about the point of being here. I live 70 miles from the Vermont YankeeNuclear Power plant and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or accident that might happen in that plant is that if it was a serious incident most likely i would no longer be able to live in my home the whole area would be contaminated if you look from fukushima. I would lose my home and my community where ive been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place it would be a complete disaster. People shouldnt have to live with that sort of risk thats not acceptable. I have a passion for justice. Theres always a lot of organizing work to be done our area and thats the way i have lived my life im frances crow. And i live in northampton massachusetts i 93 years out and ive been involved in trying to say no to this finding of the adam and all of the consequences of it since 1945 when i heard about hiroshima on the radio i am a member of the shut it down Affinity Group a group of women that came together to shut down for me with our batteries and action is that hot yes ok we meet once a month we have a pot like here my house and wave figure out what were going to do and then we do it. As for my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no prayer power plant and if there is that accident at all by this area of knowing and maybe all of new language and uninhabitable for generations. You started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 in 2009 they applied to the Nuclear Regulatory commission to get another 20 years on their license so they could run instead 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee from a yankee and see if it was reliable enough to run for true 20 more years so i was chairman of the Oversight Panel thats looked into Vermont Yankee in 2009 we found 80 problems but if they cleaned up the problems we all signed a report saying for a minute he could run for another 20 years. There a year later we found out that they were lying to us entergy on a number of occasions including under oath before our Public Service board. Denied the existence of. Underground piping carrying radioactive material. Seemed wrong. To shape out. And engagement equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. 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She and i divorce because our trouble is elected president and i voted for her and she can stand. For election. In our history. List of the months to go before the next president ial election how is the atmosphere in the us now. One of the highest Priority Programs how will they vote should they do next. Just some of the questions we put to the american. W c a romance most trusted news source c. Span channel 3 new. More trouble for a Vermont Yankee a concrete trench at the plant is unexpectedly filling up with radioactive water. Radioactive water discovered in a concrete ditch at the Nuclear Plant contains high levels of tritium the tritium found at the plant is 100. 00 times the level deemed acceptable by the Nuclear Regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high Nuclear ExpertArnie Gundersen says this is get another indication the aging play at should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects so underground pipes that Vermont Yankee originally claimed did not exist until after the 1st leak was discovered gunderson was on the public Oversight Panel he made false statements at this Parent Company says it was miscommunication nothing more the radioactive warder contained tritium lots of trivium but it also contained other isotopes he contained strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium 137. 00 which is a muscle seeker causes Heart Disease and it contains cobalt 60 which is a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes minimal all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the Connecticut River through the human all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. Why is the treaty and really of concern to us ground water down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened something needs to be done right now. I believe that miners on say. We have buried corroded pipes that are way beyond their design life. This problem is not only are mine yankee this problem is country wide maybe worldwide. We were told Crystal Clear that there were no buried underground pipes that contain radioactivity how many other plants. Do not have undergone ip do you know there are none. I asked for an obscure report i got it and i read and i said oh my god theres buried in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you ben misstatements have been given yes thats right i was stonewall what has happened at her mind yankee is a breach of trust that cannot be tolerated in order to move forward on whether or not the plan will continue to operate questions need to be answered changes need to be made and the trust of vermonters must be restored we were now being lied to and lied to under oath on record and in vermont and in vermont and especially in the statehouse. Your word is all you got to live by we have a lot of going and to do and we have to rebuild Public Confidence and trust were operating a Nuclear Power plant and people expect that you know it is an Industrial Facility you are going to have incidents thats just a fact of life. We drilled approximately 23 wells in this area so that we can triangulate and pinpoint the source of the leak by obviously the highest concentration of 28 in water in this particular well we just did not do a good job of presenting information complete and Accurate Information to the vermont Public Service board and thats unacceptable dandruff certainly on an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a tritium leak to groundwater. Adds to a lack of confidence weve said numerous times we apologize for that were embarrassed about that that shouldnt have happened. Oh yea im. Gonna walk 0. 0000. 000 martyrs who are used to all the different seasons you put out some extra clothes its winter obviously that raise certain challenges but its not a problem it happen to be january so thats when the walking. I walking because it feels like a powerful way to stand up mass said that its time to shut the plant down. Were really excited to be here were looking forward to meeting with our legislators in a little while and i really appreciate the opportunity to have democracy our interaction our be walking through the state. I am speaking on behalf of workers who today completed a 126 mile 11 day walk. And now id like to present you with a petition to the members of the ramada Legislature Please retire Vermont Yankee on schedule no later than march of 2012 and a copy to you thank you peter. Thank you to the marchers thanks to all of you in this room for coming to the peoples house the greatest democracy in america and letting us hear your voices on this important issue i have concluded that it is in the best interests of vermonter its not sure a new license step for my yankee and thats how i will go. There was an intense level of organizing behalf of the citizen activists. We held public forums. Where senators match. Our key that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote norma some of the letters to the editor and we gauged people from all across the state and all across the political spectrum to call for our legislature to vote no on continued operation of Vermont Yankee beyond march of 2012. Spears and i just want to. But the debate. Is in vermonts best interest to operate Vermont Yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. If you dont think that leaking tritium and cobol into the ground water and the Connecticut River and the environment of the state of vermont that every single for mano cherishes and holds dear then i dont know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with a Nuclear Power has a place in a future of energy in america. We can debate that 2 accounts come what we should not be debating is whether we can extend the life of our e. G. Nuclear power plants beyond their design life this is crazy stuff and i felt very strongly that it was the wrong thing to do for my clicked us secretary please call the roll to start. Another star yes from the star wars just under fire. From the white folks know. Theres a series of us are both east for the nice 26. 00. I think the senate voted 26. 00 to 4. 00 in favor of closing Vermont Yankee its really a testament to all of the work that citizens did over the course of several years over the course of decades our voice as the people as as as the people of vermont is what matters. Well you know we were disappointed with the vote but. Not surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. The Nuclear Powers a hell of a way to boil water. Really happens inside a Nuclear Reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat does boil water make some steam and turn a turbine and generator and electricity comes out but whats left behind after you if you have use that electricity by these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. It is toxic poisonous to humans for 250000 years i keep saying that number 250000 years its ridiculous its mind boggling id be the 1st to acknowledge that is the achilles heel of the Nuclear Industry nuclear waste. There is no answer to this they keep telling us oh no technology will take Care Technology technology is not taking care of it and if you cannot take care of the waste and you cannot manage the ways then the only responsible thing is to stop producing the ways. And then you. Were registering young voters to dimensions like smaller scale so instead of having a huge Nuclear Power bill these 3 really trying to get young people excited about clean energy and power in different places so to me much more local. There is Surplus Campaign is a student led arena station based out of Middlebury College we got together right after the senate voted to close because we were wondering whats coming next what are we going to replace for a minute q where. Do you feel the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. Its classed as american citizen native plants are 5. To 10 times faster. And i dont think. I would vote for a republican over trump i would vote for anyone who is not you and has half a brain. Dump truck. Is if you get. The wife. She can handle it. She and i divorce because our trouble is elected president and i for good for her and she cant stand for. That when the most important election. 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