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Climate Enters Debate Over Nuclear Power [1]

After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August at Vermont's only nuclear power plant, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly. The uproar that followed rekindled environmental groups' hopes of shutting down the aging plant. Workers last August examined the collapsed portion of a cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Entergy, the plant's operator, blamed rotting timbers for the collapse.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2008
New York Times (New York) [2]
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Climate Change [3], Global Warming [4], Nuclear Power [5], Wind Energy [6], Solar Energy [7]
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