VERNON — Cost projections from new filings by NorthStar Group Services Inc., the proposed buyer of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon:
• $811.5 million: Total costs at Vermont Yankee from 2019 to 2052
• $511.1 million: Nuclear Regulatory Commission license termination costs
• $287.8 million: Spent nuclear fuel management
• $12.6 million: Site restoration
• $17 million: Amount expected to remain in trust accounts after cleanup
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I should have known better than to include, in my review of the new documentary Burned, a sentence with the word “accounting” in it. Specifically, the “faulty accounting” discovered by folks at Princeton University is that the carbon cost of cutting and chipping and transporting wood for biomass fuel is the only cost figured into the carbon accounting. Pollution from biomass burning smokestacks was not and is not being figured into the calculations. As Mary Boone, director of the Partnership...
Join the Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) on Sunday, Dec. 13, for a live Zoom event with author Arthur Magida as he discusses his Pultizer Prize-nominated work, Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-occupied Paris, a much-lauded new biography of Noor Inayat Khan. Author Magida will discuss how we can harness Noor's strengths and unique qualities for the greater good today. Noor's father brought Sufism (Islamic mysticism) to the West in 1910. While serving as a secret agent for...
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