Reply #106: Six arrested at downtown nuclear demo 4/11/2006 [View All]

[Coastie for Truth]

Six anti-nuclear activists from Massachu-setts were arrested outside Entergy Nuclear's corporate offices Monday morning in the latest in a series of protests targeting Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant's owner.

Brattleboro Police arrested the protesters — including an 87-year-old woman — shortly before 8 a.m. after they allegedly blocked a foyer into one of the buildings. They were charged with unlawful trespass and released.

Earlier that morning, the women left effigies of themselves made from old clothes and newspapers outside the main gates at the nuclear reactor in nearby Vernon.

They said they wanted to take the protests to the plant itself, but were concerned with being exposed to radiation. "We felt it was too dangerous to be that close to the plant," she said. "So we left the effigies there as mock bodies."
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They said they wanted to take the protests to the plant itself, but were concerned with being exposed to radiation. "We felt it was too dangerous to be that close to the plant," she said. "So we left the effigies there as mock bodies."

I am biased. Bettis National Lab Alumnus and former staffie for Dr. Ivan Itkin (Itkin is a PhD nuke engineer, Bettis Alumnus, Democratic Leader in Pennsylvania Assembly, Ass't Energy Secy - and friend):shrug: