69. In stead, the company has done precisely what ithad long promised it would not: challenge theconstitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federalcourt, as part of a desperate effort to keep itsVermont Yankees nuclear power plant running.
70. A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and thediscovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about bothVermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management-especially after the company mademisleading statements about the pipe.
71. Now the company is suddenly claiming that the2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006legislation, and that only the government hasregulatory power over nuclear issues.
72. The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled thatstates do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermontcase will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.
考研英語長難句解析:
第69題:
【分析】多重復合句。句子主干為 the company hasdone...what...,其中 what 引導賓語從句,該從句中又包含省略了引導詞的從句 it would not 作 promised 的賓語,冒號后的內容是對該賓語從句的進一步解釋說明。as part of...running 作定語,修飾 challenge the court。