Lawmaker seeks more oversight over nuke

[bananas]

Source: Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes plans to introduce legislation in Congress to give states that could be affected by neighboring nuclear power plants more authority over them.

Hodes, a Democrat from New Hampshire who’s running for the U.S. Senate, made the comment after crossing the Connecticut River on Monday to tour Vermont Yankee, which has been found to be leaking radioactive tritium into groundwater at the Vernon reactor in Vermont’s southeast corner.
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Vermont Yankee’s 10-mile emergency evacuation zone extends into both New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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But the plant announced Monday evening a new reading, from sampling earlier on Monday, showed 2.52 million picocuries per liter — the highest yet from any of 14 monitoring wells.
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Published: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 8:10 AM EST

[mbperrin]

1. There's a states' right I can believe in!

Just because your neighbors don't mind drinking poison doesn't mean you don't!

[kristopher]

2. This regional view is a good policy approach to a lot of issues.

It is working on several issues that are difficult to forge a consensus on at the national level. I think the original model was watershed management.