{"id":1655,"date":"2010-02-24T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/24\/breaking-vermont-senate-votes-to-shut-down-nuclear-power-plant\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:46:00","slug":"breaking-vermont-senate-votes-to-shut-down-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/24\/breaking-vermont-senate-votes-to-shut-down-nuclear-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Vermont Senate votes to shut down nuclear power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning 26-to-4 vote puts the nuclear power plant&#8217;s future in serious doubt.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/25\/us\/25nuke.html?hp\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unless the chamber reverses itself, it will be the first time in more than 20 years that the public or its representatives has decided to close a reactor.<\/p>\n<p>The vote came just more than a week after President Obama declared a new era of rebirth for the nation\u2019s nuclear industry, announcing federal loan guarantees of $8.3 billion to assure the construction of a twin-reactor plant near Augusta, Ga.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unclear how Vermont Yankee\u2019s fate could influence the future of nuclear power nationally, the reactor\u2019s recent troubles are viewed by some as a challenge to arguments that such plants are clean, well run and worth building. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning 26-to-4 vote puts the nuclear power plant&#8217;s future in serious doubt. From the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}