Vermont Business Magazine The Public Service Department today announced the next meeting of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VT NDCAP) has been scheduled for Monday, May 20, 2019, from 6:00 PM to 8:50 PM in the Vernon Elementary School Cafeteria / Auditorium, 381 Governor Hunt Road, Vernon, VT. (Use “387 Governor Hunt Road, Vernon, VT for accurate Google Maps driving directions to this meeting site.)
The Panel will receive updates from Vermont State Agencies on preparations for overseeing Vermont Yankee’s (VY’s) active decommissioning. An assessment of NorthStar’s first annual decommissioning status report will also be provided. Representatives from NorthStar and Orano will discuss recent VY decommissioning activities and will outline plans for the segmentation and removal of the Reactor Vessel from the VY site. The Panel will also discuss potential changes in its public information, engagement and annual reporting roles moving forward, as well as potential changes to its enabling legislation, operations and administrative support. Providing feedback to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in response to the Federal Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act of 2019 (NEIMA) will also be discussed.
The complete agenda for the Monday, May 20, 2019 meeting may be viewed at: https://publicservice.vermont.gov/content/final-agenda-5-20-2019.
Presentation material for this meeting will be added to the VT NDCAP webpage at http://publicservice.vermont.gov/electric/ndcap as it becomes available. (Video recordings and meeting materials from previous VT NDCAP meetings are also available at this webpage.)
All meetings of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel are open to the public. The public can submit comments to the Panel by emailing [email protected]. (All emails sent to VT NDCAP become public record.)
Remote Access will be available for the meeting. Please email Tony Leshinskie, Vermont State Nuclear Engineer at [email protected] or through [email protected] to request a remote access connection. Remote access requests should be made no later than 5:00 PM on May 17, 2019.
Source: Montpelier, VT – PSD