Regulators ramp up oversight as Vermont Yankee dismantling begins
As an unprecedented, accelerated decommissioning project gets underway at Vermont Yankee, federal and state officials are boosting their scrutiny of the Vernon site. The first Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection report since the plant changed hands gives new owner NorthStar a thumbs-up for its work thus far.
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Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative. Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.