The Vermont congressional delegation called on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure a swift cleanup at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in southeastern Vermont after the license to run the facility runs out.  Sen. Bernie Sanders, who sits on the Senate panel that overseas the NRC, drafted a letter calling it "unacceptable" that Entergy, which owns the Vermont plant, could engage in "decades of delay" before cleaning up the site along the Connecticut River.  "Immediate decommissioning will assure Vermonters that the plant is being disassembled safely," wrote Sanders along with Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch. An immediate cleanup and shutdown of the site also would allow the plant operator to take advantage of the skills of many long-term Yankee employees who otherwise would lose their jobs.

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