Source: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/, September 23, 2025
By: Susan Smallheer

In June 2004, a dramatic fire at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant forced plant owner Entergy Nuclear to declare an unusual event and temporarily shut down the plant.

Area firefighters, along with Entergy’s own “fire brigade,” fought the fire at the large transformer, an electrical installation, with firefighting foam.

Back then, the public hadn’t heard about PFAS, but the foam used on that fire – aqueous film forming foam – contained the toxic “forever” chemicals, that are now at levels far above state standards in some portions of the Yankee site. Read more.