Power Struggle: The Epic Battle to Shut Down Vermont Yankee

Vermont’s lone nuclear power plant, Vermont Yankee, operated from 1972 until 2014, when the plant shut down for good under intense political and financial pressure. POWER STRUGGLE is a new feature-length documentary by filmmaker Robbie Leppzer about the political battle to close Vermont Yankee. We speak with Leppzer and Arnie & Maggie Gundersen, key figures in the VY battle, about the story of how nuclear power ended in Vermont, the after-effects of the 2011 nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, and the future of nuclear power.  (October 25, 2017 broadcast)

Robbie Leppzer, Arnie Gundersen, Maggie Gundersen, award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, Power Struggle, nuclear engineer and whistleblower, Fairewinds Energy Education