NEI Nuclear Notes

For a number of weeks, we've been waiting for CNN to air an extended piece concerning the fight to keep Entergy 's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant operating -- a battle that's been thoroughly chronicled at the excellent blog, Yes Vermont Yankee. CNN has just posted a 4:40 teaser on their Web site, and if this snippet is any indication, we're in for more of the sort of alarmist reporting that's helped send the former cable news giant's ratings spinning into oblivion . Case in point, this on-screen graphic that CNN's Amber Lyon calls the "damage area," around Vermont Yankee. In the nuclear industry, this is actually known as the emergency planning zone or EPZ , drawn in a 10-mile radius around every nuclear power plant in America. As NEI notes in one of its fact sheets on emergency planning : Within the 10-mile EPZ, the main immediate protective actions for the public include instructions for sheltering in place or evacuation. The slow...