2007 Year in Review: Business

Friday December 28, 2007

Colchester, VT

(Host) We return to our review of the top stories of 2007.

(Delaney) But nuclear power skeptics said the incident was just one more crack in Vermont Yankee's claim that all is well at the old plant, in spite of a 20 percent boost in power output last year. Among the critics, James Moore of VPIRG, the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.

(Moore) "This incident calls into question all of the claims that Entergy Nuclear has made about the plant's clean bill of health, and that it's operating like new.''

(Delaney) The revived argument over safety at Vermont Yankee would sputter along for months, and at year's end the NRC scolded the company over the tower collapse. But the effort to secure a 20-year license extension goes on.

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