CNN links dangers of Vermont Yankee to Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster
CNN Presents featured a segment on the growing controversy around the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant which is one of the 23 GE Mark I boiling water reactors operating in the United States that is the same design as the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power stations that exploded and melted down in Japan following the March 11, 2012 earthquake and tsunami. The Vermont legislature voted to permanently close the reactor on March 22, 2012 while the NRC voted to extend the reactor operating license by 20 years, just days after the Fukushima accident.
Here is the February 17, 2012 news account of the TV feature.
Beyond Nuclear was part of the Breaking News in CNN Situation Room on March 11, 2011 warning that the GE reactors were in danger of exploding into a nuclear catastrophe.
Watch the CNN Presentation February 18, 2012 televised story:
February 21, 2012