Vermont Yankee's woes top list of year's big stories

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Vermont Yankee's woes top list of year's big stories
By John Curran
Associated Press Writer / December 30, 2007

MONTPELIER, Vt.—For Vermont Yankee, it was not a very good year.

A series of incidents and controversies -- including the collapse of a cooling tower structure -- shook public confidence in the aging nuclear power plant, prompting a new round of scrutiny as its owners pressed their case for extension of its operating license past 2012.

The difficulties and their aftermath led Vermont news organizations to vote Vermont Yankee the year's top news story.

Also getting votes in the annual poll of newspaper editors and radio and television broadcasters were a Statehouse stalemate on climate change legislation, the launch of state-sponsored Catamount Health and a dispute over a pro-legalization prosecutor's decision in a marijuana case.

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