“Examiner News” Reports on Job-Saving Efforts
While we are of course glad that Indian Point will no longer be creating new radioactive waste, we know that there will be economic challenges for the town and for current employees once the reactors are shut down. Local and state officials are looking ahead, as this report on a recent conference on decommissioning shows:...
August 14: visit us at the Corn Fest
Find out the current status of Indian Point and what might happen next. Visit the IPSEC information table at the Beacon Sloop Club Corn Fest on the banks of the Hudson River, at the Pete and Toshi Seeger Park, within walking distance of the Metro North Beacon Train Station. If you would like to help...
It’s Not Too Late To March
Below is all of the information you need for the March for a Clean Energy Revolution on Sunday, as well as the Clean Energy Summit on Saturday, if you are coming into town for that. NOTE: it is going to be very hot on Sunday, and we will be outside for several hours. Please mind your...
July 24: Photos: Clean Energy March in Philly
Please enjoy the photos from the Philly March: For more details, housing information, meeting information, etc. please see this post. Coal, Oil, Gas, Uranium: Leave Them All in the Ground! Join IPSEC members in Philadelphia as we walk in the Nuclear Free, Carbon Free Contingent and with our anti-fracking allies on the March for...
Indian Point – directed by Ivy Meeropol
Here is the link to the trailer for Ivy Meeropol’s character driven documentary on Indian Point. This film presents the issues surrounding Indian Point though the eyes of the former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko, a control room supervisor, Brian Vangar, a journalist, Roger Witherspoon, a former attorney for Riverkeeper, Philip Musegass, an advocate for closing...
June 8! Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition Action Alert NRC Public Meeting on Indian Point
When: Wednesday eve June 8, 2016 Where: DoubleTree Hotel, Tarrytown (Grand Ballroom, 455 S. Broadway) Time: Informal questions and sign-up at 6pm. Formal meeting 7pm Prepare to hear a lot about reactor baffle bolts. None of it good. As many of you know, Friends of the Earth (FOE) has just filed an Emergency Petition demanding...
Safe Energy Summit: End Nuclear Power Now!
Friday, April 29th – Sunday, May 1st Stony Point Center 17 Cricketown Road, Stony Point, NY 10980 On the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster, join the Stony Point Convergence, IPSEC, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and antinuclear activists from across the region and the nation at an open-conference weekend: we will pool our knowledge and...
A New Film: “INDIAN POINT”
A new documentary film on Indian Point by Ivy Meeropol, a MacArthur Grant recipient, is premiering at Tribeca Film Festival, Apr15-26! Indian Point Directed and written by Ivy Meeropol (USA)—World Premiere Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility,...
Panel: Building a Just, Sustainable, and Nuclear-Free World
Monday, April 13, at 7:00 p.m. Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse 110 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Directions: All subways to downtown Brooklyn [map] Just four years after the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear power is being promoted as a “clean, green” solution to climate change; the number of nuclear power plants is expected to double globally over the...
URGENT! 6/16 – Clean Energy Standard Meeting