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Vernon, VT – The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is back on line after a 25-day outage for refueling and maintenance. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley has more...
The plant returned to service shortly before midnight Tuesday and officials say it will be slowly brought up to full power over the next few days.
Plant spokesman Larry Smith says 850 workers were brought in to supplement the plant's normal staff of about 600 during the outage.
One third of the fuel rods in the reactor core were replaced, and other maintenance tasks were undertaken.
I'm Pat Bradley, WAMC News.
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