But should we forget about Chernobyl or consider it irrelevant to Vermont's nuclear energy future? Take a look at some of the stories of people who experienced Chernobyl and then decide:
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl.

These are the towns in which citizens would face similar challenges to the Chernobyl catastrophe if nuclear radiation is not contained, with total vigilance for thousands of years, at the Vernon reactor. (Vermont Yankee's power comes from the same nuclear reactor and produces the same contaminated nuclear waste as all nuclear reactors.)

Towns in Vermont Yankee's immediate evacuation zone: Brattleboro, Brookside, Dover, Dummerston, Guilford, Halifax, Marlboro, Newfane, Putney, Townshend, Vernon, Wardsboro, Westminster, Whitingham, Wilmington.

Chesterfield, Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Hinsdale, Keene, Marlborough, Richmond, Roxbury, Surry, Swanzey, Troy, Walpole, Westmoreland, Winchester.

Athol, Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Colrain, Conway, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Hawley, Heath, Leverett, Leyden, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Rowe, Royalton, Shelburne, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell.



Ben Falk
Moretown

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