Anti-nuclear activists in Vermont are a strange breed. Yesterday the NRC gave Vermont Yankee the high marks they deserve for plant safety and other performance measures. The anry anti-nukes responded with compost, throwing it, covering NRC documents with it, and spreading it into water glasses.
It wasn’t just invectives that flew from mouths of the anti-nuclear activists at Thursday’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting in Brattleboro. One activist also threw compost at Vermont Yankee’s site vice president <name redacted>. Carrying a bag to the front of the conference room, she threw a handful of “spent food” at <name redacted> and other Entergy executives before depositing handfuls of compost on a table where NRC officials sat.
The NRC was in Brattleboro to discuss Yankee’s 2008 annual assessment, in which the agency stated the nuclear power plant was operated “in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives.”
The above was edited to remove inflammatory remarks by a clearly deranged activist.
What really amazed me was not the ill behavior of the anti-nukes (I’ve come to expect that!), but the supportive and even jovial manner in which the “Brattelboro Reformer” the local newspaper covered the story.
#1 by Jason Ribeiro on April 23, 2009 - 4:46 PM
John- this type of group behavior allows a lot of ignorance to perpetuate. They have their rights, the are entitled to their concerns, but many just don’t want to consider nuclear energy not because it might actually help the planet, but they would lose face and be proven wrong…about a lot of things.