Officials from the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission were in Brattleboro Wednesday to talk about Entergy Vermont Yankee's annual safety assessment. The plant got high marks from the NRC for safety.

Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be in Brattleboro today to talk about their annual safety assessment of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be in Brattleboro later this month to talk about their annual safety assessment of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

A federal appeals court weighing a water quality permit for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant wants lawyers to provide it with written arguments on another type of water quality permit.

The commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service will be in Washington today to argue that the license renewal federal regulators gave to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant was issued improperly.

The owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant want the state's utility regulator to give the company more than a year to file documents that could lead to it being allowed to operate for another 20 years.

Prosecutors are dropping criminal trespassing charges against 136 protesters who were arrested last month at the corporate offices of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

The Vermont Senate is set to debate a miscellaneous tax bill including a new $7.5 million tax on the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

More than 1,000 people turned out Saturday on the Brattleboro town green for a rally to show support for decommissioning the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, one of the oldest nuclear power plants in the country.

There will be a rally in Brattleboro tomorrow to protest the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant. The event has been organized by a coalition of groups, including the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, the Sierra Club, and VPIRG.

Vermont Yankee is operating at reduced power while technicians continue to trouble-shoot problems with its steam condenser. The condenser contains thousands of tubes, and some have started to leak.

Associated Industries of Vermont complains that a proposed tax increase on the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant sends the wrong message to companies doing business in Vermont.

Members of the state Senate Economic Development Committee continue to look for ways to deal with the economic consequences of closing Vermont Yankee. Last year, legislators set aside $50,000 for a regional study that included a look at the ripple effects of losing as many as 650 of the region's highest paying jobs.

Brattleboro Progressive Rep. Sarah Edwards will travel today to a Waste Isolation Pilot Project in New Mexico.

The Public Service Board has ordered that an entirely new case be opened into Vermont Yankee's request for a new state operating license. The decision is a response to the federal court decision that threw out the Legislature's ability to block the relicensing of the nuclear power plant.

The Vermont House has advanced legislation that hits the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant with a big tax increase. Supporters say it works out about even for the Vernon reactor, because other payments it makes to the state are ending.

More than a thousand people gathered in Brattleboro Thursday to protest Vermont Yankee's continued operation. The protesters marched three miles from the Brattleboro common to the plant's headquarters. Some walked on stilts, some carried signs. They sang, they acted, and even committed civil disobedience.   

As many as 1,000 demonstrators gathered Thursday in Brattleboro to protest the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee plant, and at least 130 of them were arrested for trespassing.

Newscast: March 22, 2012, 5:49 p.m.

Opponents of Vermont Yankee are disappointed that the nuclear power plant is still generating electricity. But they say they'll continue fighting to close it down.