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July 3, 2012

Scores Arrested Protesting Vermont Nuclear Plant 
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Nearly 40 protesters have been arrested in Vermont at the gates of the
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Vermont lawmakers have tried to
shutter the plant but it is still in operation after its parent company,
Entergy Corporation, won an extension from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission and a subsequent court battle. The Vermont Yankee facility is
one of the oldest in the country and has had a series of radioactive
tritium leaks. On Sunday, anti-nuclear activists approached the Yankee
plant with a 600-pound, handmade "Trojan Cow" filled with renewable
energy devices. Organizers say they plan to launch a flotilla next month
to raise awareness about the plant's polluting of the Connecticut River.

 

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