NRC takes 32 years to answer petition

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MONTPELIER, Vt. - The nuclear energy watchdog group New England Coalition has been waiting a long time, a very long time, for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to pay attention to its concerns.

The agency has just replied to a petition concerning safety and radiation exposure that the coalition filed in 1975.

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As if being ignored for three decades weren't enough, the NRC denied the group's petition.

The coalition had been urging federal regulators to consider, as part of their environmental review of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the full effects of nuclear power — from mining uranium to burying radioactive waste. The plant opened in 1972.

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1. LOL that is the best desk-decluttering story I've heard.