Don't forget the disposable income those well-paid skilled people were able to spend in the area. How many high-five/low-six figure salaries are no longer getting spent in greater Brattleboro and how much tax revenue went away between salaries and Yankee's property tax?

> Yes, the reactor was old but it should have been replaced with something new and safer, not tossed out altogether.

Sometimes we have a habit of viewing the past in better terms than it really was. Entergy Louisiana had absolutely no interest in keeping the plant running from the day it was acquired, and VY was not going to see any investment past the bare minimum. Remember the leaking pipes? They spot patched it to the minimum standards instead of replacing the whole system to cut costs. Ultimately it was a business decision, not a political one, to decommission a plant past its usable life.

This is what the Dems want they want electricity to be extremely expensive to push out the working class they are slaves to this electric climate cult that has no real reason to exist except to destroy. I used to believe the hype myself till I started looking into things nuclear power has come along way it's not like it once was solar and wind can't sustain the population look at tx they are flat land wind mills all over I've been there solar all over and what happened when it got cold there and they needed power for heat and such it all crashed same in California. People need to wake up stop believing all the propaganda you see on TV and the newspaper do your own research listen to other sides then just one.