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SW: 25 towns vote against license extension
In April 2008, at "the last of four public meetings held by the [Governor Jim] Douglas administration on the future of the nuclear reactor," two officials with Vermont's Department of Public Service were "peppered ... with questions," reported Vermont's ''Rutland Herald''. "People appeared to be the most upset when [state engineer Uldis] Vanags talked about the high-level radioactive nuclear waste produced at Vermont Yankee, and the fact that it would remain deadly for thousands of years. ... While the vast majority of the comments were against any future for nuclear power in Vermont, there was a small contingent of pro-nuclear residents, some of whom were employees from the nearby reactor." <ref>Susan Smallheer, "[http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080403/NEWS02/224476666/1003/NEWS02 Brattleboro hosts boisterous nuclear forum]," ''Rutland Herald'' (Vermont), April 3, 2008.</ref>
In March 2009, 25 towns voted to direct the Vermont state legislature to keep Vermont Yankee from operating past its 2012 license expiration. The votes came during a Town Meeting day in the state; 40 towns considered the issue. Other measures directed Entergy to full fund the plant's decommissioning fund. "Vermont is the only state with a law giving its legislature veto power over continued operation of a nuclear reactor beyond the expiration of its license," according to the ''Brattleboro Reformer''. <ref>"[http://www.reformer.com/ci_11827012?source=most_viewed Voters in 25 towns give no-confidence vote to Vt. Yankee]," ''Brattleboro Reformer'' (Vermont), March 3, 2009.</ref>
==Funds for closing the plant in doubt==
