What is DECON? and suggested handout on canisters and suggested talking points
When referring to storage containers, the vendors are now trying to call their thin canisters “thick canisters” and “robust cask systems”, so it’s important to be more specific. Technically, the term “canister” is not used to define thick metal casks, but most people don’t know the difference between the word “canister and “cask”, so I...
States Are Using Taxpayer Money to Greenwash Dirty Nuclear Power
This is one of the best article refuting the use of nuclear power for climate change that I have seen. It is also one of the few that say flat out that nuclear power is not carbon free and to clearly lay out the fuel cycle facts. All of the dirty lies the industry is...
Town hall meeting held on impact of Indian Point closure in Cortlandt
Cortlandt Town Hall was packed with task force members and residents Thursday to discuss a new agreement to sell the Indian Point power plant. Indian Point is scheduled to shut down by April 2021. The plant’s buyer, Holtec International, was not present at the meeting. The Buchanan, Cortlandt and Hendrick Hudson school districts will lose...
Letter to the editor
Rick Pezzullo’s article in the April 1 Examiner, “Indian Point Community Advisory Panel” describes the recent Press Conference in Buchanan at which the formation of a Community Advisory Panel was formally announced with a minimum of advance notice to the public – far less than a decision of this importance should require.. For the past...
Entergy Sells Indian Point To Holtec International
Entergy Corp. (NYSE: ETR) has agreed to sell the subsidiaries that own Indian Point Units 1, 2, and 3, located in Buchanan, N.Y., to a Holtec International subsidiary for decommissioning. The sale, which will be effective after Unit 3 has been shut down and permanently defueled, includes the transfer of the licenses, spent fuel, decommissioning...
Troubled Indian Point reactor back to full power after shutdown
Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor was back to full power over the weekend following a three-day shutdown while workers addressed an issue with a generator on the non-nuclear side of the power plant. Unit 2 resumed generating power Friday afternoon and was at full power Saturday morning after a shutdown that began Tuesday, according to...
New Indian Pt. Community Advisory Panel Receives Backlash
The establishment of a Community Advisory Panel (CAP) to serve as a communication vehicle for issues surrounding the decommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plants was announced last Thursday at Buchanan Village Hall. The 25-member group will be chaired by Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker, with Cortlandt Supervisor Linda Puglisi serving as vice chairwoman, and...
Power restored at Indian Point after more than two-week shutdown
Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor resumed generating power Monday, following a shutdown of more than two weeks caused by a malfunction in a generator. Unit 2 — one of the Buchanan power plant’s two working nuclear reactors — was returned to service around noon Monday, according to Jerry Nappi, a spokesman for Indian Point’s owner, Entergy....
Indian Point Task Force Sets Next Meeting
CORTLANDT, NY — The next New York State Indian Point Task Force meeting is scheduled for April 25. It will begin at 5 p.m. at Cortlandt Town Hall, 1 Heady St. There will be updates from Hendrick Hudson Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter and Village of Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker. Buchanan has also acted locally. On Thursday,...
Cortlandt establishes Citizens Advisory Board
Indian Point “Citizen Advisory Panel” Please note that this is not a Citizens Oversight Board. On March 29, 2019 Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker and Cortlandt Supervisor Linda Puglisi launched their own Community Advisory Panel or CAP. They used the old model that has not worked for either Maine or Vemont where the company pays for...
Entergy Seeks Buyer For Indian Point
BUCHANAN, NY – Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear power plant Unit 3 began its 20th and final refueling and maintenance outage Monday morning. Unit 2 had its last maintenance and refueling outage last year. The company plans to sell the nuclear plant complex in 2019. “Entergy is actively working on a transaction for Indian Point that we...
Trump Administration pushes plan to store nuclear waste in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is defending the Trump administration’s plans to collect and store nuclear waste from around the country in a site northwest of Las Vegas. Perry told a House Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday that the alternative was leaving spent nuclear fuel at sites in more than three dozen states. Perry says leaving the hazardous...
