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Monthly archive May, 2003

“The NRC’s dirty little secret” by Daniel Hirsch, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman

“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still unwilling to respond to serious security problems. For a quarter of a century, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) kept its dirty little secret: Despite the fact that a successful attack on a U.S. nuclear plant could cause thousands of illnesses and deaths in the surrounding area, and despite the...

“Critics: N.Y. sites a terrorism risk” by Mary Judice

“Entergy Corp. on Friday defended its nuclear plants outside New York City as safe and well-operated after a Connecticut money manager earlier this week joined environmentalists in calling for the closure of the plants. Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge fund manager based in Greenwich, Conn., told analysts and investors at the New York Mercantile Exchange...

“Indian Pt. works to meet new security rules” by Roger Witherspoon

“At the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday, Paul Tudor Jones, one of the nation’s most influential financiers and the chairman of Tudor Investment Corp., said the Indian Point plants posed a security risk and should be shut down within the next five years. Jones said radiation escaping from the plant following a successful terrorist attack...

“Report: Indian Point 2 poorly maintained during 1990s” by Roger Witherspoon

“Operating conditions at Indian Point 2 deteriorated alarmingly throughout the 1990s, and only intensive intervention by the regional Nuclear Regulatory Commission office, beginning in 1995, halted the downward spiral, according to a report released yesterday by the agency’s inspector general. Yet, the report also notes that senior NRC officials refused to allow the regional administrator,...