Westchester: Legislature Opposes Discharge The Westchester County Legislature on Monday (March 6) unanimously adopted a resolution opposing a plan to empty the spent fuel pools at the Indian Point nuclear power plant near Peekskill into the Hudson River. On Wednesday, Rockland County legislators did the same, although an effort has stalled in Putnam. The two resolutions also...

Rockland County joins Westchester County in mounting opposition to Holtec International’s plan to dump radioactive waste from the Indian Point nuclear facility into the Hudson River On Wednesday, in a 16-0 vote, the Rockland County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution calling on Governor Hochul and relevant agencies to stop Holtec International from dumping toxic waste into the...

Feb 17, 2023 Read the letters on page 4 of the February 17, 2023 week’s edition of  Highlands Current. Rich Burroni, Holtec, says that the company has the necessary permits to release the fuel pool water into the Hudson. https://highlandscurrent.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/02-17-23.pdf

To the Editor:  Holtec Vice President Rich Burroni may not want us to use the term “dumping” about the company’s planned release of radioactive water into the Hudson River this summer. But whatever you call it, the point is that it’s a bad choice – for the seven communities that draw their drinking water from...

Radioactive waste has been released into the Hudson River for as long as Indian Point has existed.  It was accepted as part of regular and routine operation of the plant.  The effects of these releases were not considered from a medical perspective. It was only necessary that they be “below regulatory concern” according to standards...

Greetings Activists,  Have you talked with your legislators yet about passing the Resolution about dumping tritium into the Hudson River yet?  It can be as simple as printing out the Resolution and mailing it to your Board member or town supervisor with a note requesting that your town sign on.  Or emailing it. Talking points...

This article lays out a detailed picture of what it means to release one million gallons of radioactively contaminated water containing tritium  and other radioactive isotopes into the Hudson River.  It also offers a solution. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/24/mhus-f24.html “An effective decontamination strategy would be to simply keep the wastewater contained on site to allow the natural decay...

Feel free to copy, adapt, whatever – and send it on. Thanks for your help, Judy Dear Mr. Slater: As a 43-year resident of Putnam County, 14 miles from Indian Point, I am very concerned about Holtec International’s plan to discharge a million gallons of radioactive water from the fuel pools at Indian Point into the...

https://midhudsonnews.com/2023/02/26/lawmakers-propose-bill-to-ban-the-release-of-radioactive-waste-into-waterways/ In order to move ahead on decommissioning the owner, Holtec, must empty the pool that stored the high level radioactive fuel rods.The water is contaminated with different radio active isotopes which could actually be stored on site along with the spent fuel rods. “After decades of tremendous efforts to clean up the Hudson River,...

“The river has a history of pollutants being dumped into it, and some 200 river miles are classified as a superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency. During a forum about the implications of Holtec’s actions, physicist Dr. Helen Caldicott described some of what could end up in the Hudson, such as tritium.”

This article in Scientific American from 2014 is the most comprehensive discussion of tritium that I have read. As far as I can tell nothing has changed with tritium since then. It covers all the angles and does not try to force any one conclusion on the reader. A long read but well worth it....