I don’t see any one celebrating the closure of Indian Point as the Mayor has suggested. It is a traumatic situation for the 2, 241 people of Buchanan. The town has reaped the benefits of hosting Indian Point for the last 46 years and enjoyed the low tax rates that has come with it. A...

Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor shut down late Thursday after nearly 46 years generating electricity for Westchester County and New York City. At 11 p.m., a reactor operator in the control room pressed a red button shutting down the nuclear fission process in the reactor. “Over the last 45 years, thousands of dedicated professionals have...

Today marks the beginning of the shutdown of dirty polluting nuclear energy.  Indian Point #2 has finally shut down. Indian Point has been the crown jewel of the nuclear industry. Closing it is lynch pin of ending nuclear energy in the United States. Located 24 miles from NYC, on two intersecting fault lines and next...

Aerial view of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in the late 1960s. [Photo courtesy of Entergy] Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor ascended along the shores of the Hudson River in the late 1960s at a time of great optimism for the nuclear power movement in the U.S. Engineers had just perfected a method to...

https://mp4media.gannett-cdn.com/28911775001/28911775001_6050031258001_6049736786001.mp4 An in-depth look at the end of the nuclear power industry as we know it, and what lies ahead for the communities where plants are powering down. Rockland/Westchester Journal News Indian Point, an aging and increasingly dangerous nuclear power plant, is finally closing under a landmark agreement struck in January 2017 by the state of New York,...