Report: Vt. No. 1 in waste per person

Friday, May 18

BRATTLEBORO -- A report to be released today details how Vermonters are shouldering more than two times the national average of nuclear waste per person than elsewhere in the U.S.

The Vermont Public Interest Research Group and Citizens Awareness Network, along with the Toxics Action Center, Nuclear Free Vermont and the Vermont Sierra Club, plan to release the report at 1 p.m. in Montpelier and in Brattleboro.

The report is designed to explain the full life-cycle costs of nuclear power and "debunk the notion that Vermont Yankee is a 'green' power source," wrote Drew Hudson, the field and communications director for the public interest group.

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May 19, 2007

MONTPELIER -- Activists released a report Friday indicating Vermont has more radioactive nuclear waste per capita than any state in the nation, which they said underscores the need for approval of a climate change bill that would tax the Vermont Yankee plant.

Activists and others say it's more likely the waste will remain at the nuclear energy plants where it's produced.

Drew Hudson of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group said that was justification enough for tripling a tax on Vermont Yankee for the electricity it produces, as the Legislature proposed in a climate change bill that Gov. Jim Douglas has said he'll veto.

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