Vermont Student Towards Environmental Protection presents a UVM Teach-in on Vermont Yankee
Speakers include: Maggie Gunderson, founder and president of the Burlington, VT-based Faire Winds Associates, a paralegal and expert witness firm specializing in issues of nuclear reliability issues, Jared Margolis, Attorney for the New England Coalition and Environmental Law professor at UVM
and Chris Williams, organizer with the Vermont Citizens Awareness Network
UVM, Billings North Lounge, on Tuesday, March 13th, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.Brooke Shaffer, member of the Vermont Student Environmental Program (VSTEP), the campus club that is sponsoring the teach in said, “It is so important, as the state of Vermont works to retire this accident prone reactor on schedule this year, that students, and the general public become better informed about the environmental and safety issues surrounding the operations of a 40-year-old reactor, and the long term storage of high level waste on the banks of New England’s longest river.”
Gunderson speaks on the similarities between Vermont Yankee, a GE Mark I boiling water reactor, and the reactors that suffered catastrophic containment failures at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan a year ago.
Margolis speaks on the State of Vermont’s legal and regulatory efforts to close the Vermont Yankee reactor on schedule, and to address the storage of high level waste in Vernon.
Chris Williams, of the Vermont Citizens Awareness Network, speaks about the grassroots citizens campaign to support the State of Vermont in retiring the reactor.
