U.S. Rep. Hodes proposes NH officials take part in overseeing leaking Vermont Yankee reactor

U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., has announced a bill proposing that New Hampshire officials share in overseeing regulation at the Vermont Yankee atomic reactor, source of concentrated hazardous radioactive tritium leaks into groundwater that will eventually flow into the Connecticut River. the Connecticut forms the border between the Green Mountain and Granite States, but actually legally belongs to New Hampshire. "When there is a health and safety issue at a nuclear plant, the lines we draw between states don't mean much," Hodes said.