MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s attorney general says prosecutors won’t charge executives at nuclear plant owner Entergy Corp. with lying under oath.
William Sorrell’s announcement Wednesday comes after a 17-month investigation into testimony that Entergy executives had given to the state Public Service Board.
Entergy executives had told the board that the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant didn’t have underground piping that might leak radioactive substance. The pipes were found later not only to exist, but to be leaking.
Company officials later announced they had misled state officials in their statements, but said they had not done so intentionally.
After the revelations, the state Senate voted 26-4 to block Vermont Yankee from operating after March of 2012, when its license expires.
