{"id":247,"date":"2017-07-07T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2017-07-26T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:39:30","slug":"vermont-yankee-shut-it-down-or-keep-it-running","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/debates\/vermont-yankee-shut-it-down-or-keep-it-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Yankee Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Debate: Vermont Yankee, Shut it Down or Keep it Running?<\/h1>\n<p>On\u00a0February 24, 2011, the Janus Forum hosted a debate about the future Vermont Yankee, a nuclear power plant housed in Vermont. This debate featured\u00a0Howard Shaffer, Arnie Gunderson, and Emerson Lynn. \u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Howard Shaffer has been an active member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) for over three decades. He contributes\u00a0regularly to the\u00a0ANS&#8217;s\u00a0regulatory and public information committees and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.\u00a0<\/span>Arnie Gunderson is a chief engineer at Fairewinds Associates&#8217; and regularly gives testimony to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on radiation and nuclear safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the debate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r-vPBGBSJNk\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debate: Vermont Yankee, Shut it Down or Keep it Running? On\u00a0February 24, 2011, the Janus Forum hosted a debate about the future Vermont Yankee, a nuclear power plant housed in Vermont. This debate featured\u00a0Howard Shaffer, Arnie Gunderson, and Emerson Lynn. \u00a0Howard Shaffer has been an active member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) for over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/debates\/vermont-yankee-shut-it-down-or-keep-it-running\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vermont Yankee Power Plant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4398,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/267"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}