To the Editor:

You may have missed it in the news, but something very important happened on August 13. Entergy, the owners of my employer, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, agreed to commit an additional $51 million towards decommissioning. If money talks, and we all know it does, this announcement speaks volumes about the company’s commitment. Let’s not forget that concern about the decommissioning fund was heightened by traumatic events on Wall Street. As the market has rebounded, so has the fund’s worth.

I think it’s time to drop the decommissioning bill that only makes it harder to relicense the plant, and let the federal and State of Vermont regulators do what they are fully empowered to do: make sure that when the plant’s days of producing low-carbon, affordable power are over, it will be fully decommissioned.

Chris Evans

Dummerston