RE: “On joy and justice” [Viewpoint, Sept. 4]:
I can assure Chad Simmons that neither Vermont Yankee employees nor their families will be dancing in the street or high-fiving anyone, today or “eventually.”
The reality of impending job losses is anything but fear-mongering in any VY household at the moment.
Perhaps it is Simmons' sense of reality that is skewed.
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