Nuke Pushers to Vermont: “Drop Dead”

By: Wednesday March 17, 2010 12:31 am

The nuclear power industry is sending a clear and forceful message to the citizens of Vermont: “Drop Dead”

Vermont’s Radioactive Nightmare

By: Wednesday February 10, 2010 10:08 pm

Like a decayed flotilla of rickety steamers, at least 27 of America’s 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking radioactive tritium, which is linked to cancer if inhaled or ingested through the throat or skin.

The fallout has been fiercest at Vermont Yankee, where a flood of cover-ups has infuriated and terrified near neighbors who say the reactor was never meant to operate more than 30 years, and must now shut.

Obama’s New Nuclear War

By: Tuesday February 2, 2010 10:56 pm

Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically.

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