“FIRE HAZARD: BUSH LEAVES NUCLEAR PLANTS AT RISK” by Anne-Marie Cusac
“On June 16, the commission charged with investigating the events of September 11 announced that Al Qaeda’s early attack plans had included “unidentified nuclear power plants.” You might think the Bush Administration would respond by doing all it could to prevent a terrorist-triggered disaster at these plants. Think again. The Bush Administration is actually relaxing...
“Indian Point: A Dialogue; A Pretend Response To a Pretend Emergency” by Richard L. Brodsky
“THE risk of a major release of radiation from the Indian Point nuclear power plants is small, but the consequences would be extraordinary, permanent and catastrophic. Put aside whether Indian Point is cheaper (it actually isn’t — taxpayer subsidies for waste disposal, insurance, pollution controls and emergency planning merely make it seem cheaper) or how...
“Fake nuclear drill mocked; Protestors charge evacuation exercise is unrealistic” by Rita J. King
“Real reporters weren’t allowed to ask questions during the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Radiological Emergency Preparedness Plan drill yesterday (Tuesday) regarding a terrorist attack at Indian Point, apparently because the situation presented isn’t real. FEMA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, Indian Point’s owner, invented a terrorist scenario and held a mock press conference during...
“COMMUNITY VIEW POINT” by Maureen Garner-Ritter and Susan H. Shapiro, RocklandCAN
“America’s mantra has become “What did they know, and when did they know it?”. Therefore, it is unconscionable that we continue to turn a blind eye on the clear and present danger of Indian Point. Imagine for a moment the convening of the “independent” investigation regarding an accident, earthquake or terrorist attack that caused a...
“Indian Point gets favorable NRC ratings” by Greg Cannon
“Buchanan – The Indian Point nuclear power plant’s two reactors are operating safely, but efforts to fix problems that do come up “have produced mixed results,” according to an annual assessment by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The findings were released late last week as part of a yearly roundup of safety and performance ratings...
“Nuclear Official Says Bush Erred On Details of Threat to Reactors” by Matthew L. Wald
“President Bush was probably wrong when he asserted in his 2002 State of the Union address that American forces routing guerrillas of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan had found designs for nuclear power plants, one of the three members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said. The commissioner, Edward McGaffigan Jr., who was appointed to the...
“White House Backs Away From Bush ’02 Nuclear-Terror Warning” by Robert Block and Greg Hitt
“WASHINGTON — The White House stepped back from a high-profile assertion by President Bush, in his January 2002 State of the Union Address, that U.S. forces had uncovered evidence of a potential attack against an American nuclear facility. In the speech, Mr. Bush warned of a terrorist threat to the nation, saying that the U.S....
“A win for the fish?” an Editorial by the Journal News
“A new federal appeals court decision regarding the environmental health of the Hudson River is as murky as the waterway itself. The state Department of Environmental Conservation sees favor in the decision. The embattled owners of the Indian Point nuclear power plants find vindication in it. The environmental group Riverkeeper puts the ruling in the...
“Ruling protects Hudson fish” by Roger Witherspoon
“A federal rule allowing new power plants to kill fish while using river water in their cooling systems, as long as they also have restoration programs, was struck down yesterday by the U.S. Court of Appeals as a violation of the Clean Water Act. The three-judge panel in Albany ruled that the law requires power...
“Cheating On Security” by Notra Trulock
“Last November, Vanity Fair magazine ran an expos? on security vulnerabilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory and other Energy Department facilities around the nation. Based on disclosures by Energy whistleblowers, the article charged that mock “terrorists” have repeatedly defeated security forces during exercises of the lab’s security system. The whistleblowers said that the “terrorists” penetrated...
“Inside America’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Power Plant” by Jeffrey St. Clair
“These are desperate days for Entergy, the big Arkansas-based power conglomerate that owns the frail Indian Point nuclear plant, located on the east bank of the Hudson River outside Buchanan, New York-just 22 miles from Manhattan. First, a scathing report by a nuclear engineer fingered Indian Point as one of five worst nuclear plants in...
