Lend Massachusetts voices to Vermont nuclear power protest

[ Originally published on: Saturday, January 02, 2010 ]

Recorder/Mike Phillips

Protesting the nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., Friday morning, a group walks along Route 142 in Northfield toward Vernon to deliver letters asking that plant be closed. These protesters are supporting a group that will walk from Vernon, Vt., to Montpelier, Vt. to protest the license renewal for the plant slated for 2012.

Nina Keller of Wendell bundled up Friday morning for a cold walk with a dozen others who, starting in Gill, marched up Route 142 to Vernon, Vt., to protest 'radiation without representation.'

The group headed out at 10 a.m. for the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor to deliver a couple of letters written by walkers and show support of a larger group scheduled to walk beginning today from Brattleboro to the Statehouse in Montpelier in protest of a renewal of the plant's license in two years. That walk is expected to take a couple of weeks to complete.

'For those of us who might not be able to join that group, we thought this symbolic walk would be the next best thing,' said Keller, who does not want to see the neighboring state re-license the reactor in 2012.

Vermont Yankee applied several years ago for a 20-year license renewal as it approached the expiration in 2012 of its current license.

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