The Vermont Public Service Board has told the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant it wants reports every two weeks on progress the plant is making in investigating and cleaning up leaks of radioactive substances into soil and water around the Vernon reactor.

And in a highly unusual move, the board is demanding that the reports come in the form of sworn affidavits from officials with the company that owns the plant, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp.

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