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How much is safety worth? Entergy is trading security for the safety of the lives of Vernon, VT, residents for money shipped to Louisiana. Sure they can buy community support by generous giving to schools, etc. It has ever been so in nuclear communities. I thought Entergy said they were buying the plant to decommission it -- raid the money set aside to do the project is more like the truth. Now they want to increase its life by fifty percent even as it is obvious there are maintenance problems. How long before there's an accident with the spent fuel rod storage part of the plan? How soon is an expansion of spent fuel rod storage needed? Doesn't this up the community risk? The Department of Energy has worked on safe storage since 1968 and never solved the problem. Above ground storage was intended to be an interim solution to storage until the Nevada storage site was ready at Yucca Mountain. Guess what Now the interim solution is the "permanent" solution. And what happened to the Certificate of Public Good now ruled not necessary only in Vermont? Government over the people, for the corporations, with awarded individual rights granted a non-breathing "body."