Post by Logan on Jun 10, 2016 14:43:00 GMT -6
BRATTLEBORO — Last week at a Boston hotel, a team of officials and experts spent hours dissecting a vexing question: What’s the best way to find a new home for the nation’s nuclear waste?
The inquiry is particularly important for Windham County and the town of Vernon, where Vermont Yankee’s spent nuclear fuel will be stored for the foreseeable future. So the region’s diverse representation at the meeting convened by the Energy Department included a Windham County planner, members of a Brattleboro anti-nuclear group, and employees of a Massachusetts-based institute lobbying on behalf of nuclear host communities like Vernon.
All had a chance to chime in on the U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to develop a new strategy to find communities willing to take nuclear waste. While the results of those efforts are still uncertain and are years away, those with an interest in getting spent fuel out of Vermont are happy the conversation is happening.
“It’s an indication that the Department of Energy is taking this seriously,” said U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
Read more: vtdigger.org/2016/06/09/vermont-has-voice-in-national-nuclear-waste-debate/
The inquiry is particularly important for Windham County and the town of Vernon, where Vermont Yankee’s spent nuclear fuel will be stored for the foreseeable future. So the region’s diverse representation at the meeting convened by the Energy Department included a Windham County planner, members of a Brattleboro anti-nuclear group, and employees of a Massachusetts-based institute lobbying on behalf of nuclear host communities like Vernon.
All had a chance to chime in on the U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to develop a new strategy to find communities willing to take nuclear waste. While the results of those efforts are still uncertain and are years away, those with an interest in getting spent fuel out of Vermont are happy the conversation is happening.
“It’s an indication that the Department of Energy is taking this seriously,” said U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
Read more: vtdigger.org/2016/06/09/vermont-has-voice-in-national-nuclear-waste-debate/