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For decades, communities have been navigating economic uncertainty, closures, energy transitions, and other challenges stemming from hosting energy-generating infrastructure. Community stakeholders surrounding the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, have been leaders in addressing economic impacts resulting from nuclear decommissioning. For over a decade, they and other communities across the country have laid the groundwork for how to consider, accurately measure, and respond to the economic impacts of plant closure. Many communities have benefitted from this work

It is this base of knowledge and experience, and increased awareness of the issue, that has motivated the federal government and others in the energy transition space to build on this work and offer support to nuclear host communities and regions. Our Nuclear Communities program is focused on lifting up the experiences of communities like Southern Vermont, building capacity in communities ​​while plants are still operating, and offering tools and strategies to meet the challenges and opportunities associated with plant closure, energy transition, and economic diversification.