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Indian Point

An Illegal Plant Astonishingly, on the Hudson less than twenty miles from our neighborhood is a forty-two year old nuclear plant built on an earthquake fault line.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has stated that Indian Point Reactor 3 has the highest risk of earthquake damage in the country among the 104 plants currently operating. Under today's laws, no such plant could be built this close to a major metropolitan area.

Not Another 20 Years The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hear Indian Point's application for license extensions next year. Three Parks has joined with many other environmental and safety-minded community organizations to oppose relicensing.

Get Electeds on Board We need to ensure that all our elected officials not only oppose relicensing, but also actively work to pressure the NRC to deny license extensions.

Green Power President-elect Obama's Green Energy program will help create replacement power for Indian Point with sustainable energy alternatives. Studies have already shown that with the permanent retirement of Indian Point at the end of its current licenses, there would be more than enough power available to meet the area's electricity needs.

September 9, 2011 - Three Parks, Park River Ind. Democrats, and Frederick E. Samuel Community Dem. Club meet with Senator Schumer (standing center) on Indian Point and Social Security. The Senator was aware of safety issues at the nuclear power plant and the risks to New Yorkers and asked for more information about how much power IP actually supplies to NY and available replacement energy; on SS, he listened to our concerns about politicization of the program and its apparent central role in the President's jobs bill.

Response to Japan Tragedy:

Now Is the Time to Close Indian Point
New Materials

We don't need Indian Point's power, according to a comprehensive, authoritative new study. Click here for the easy to read, detailed report.

Assembly Committee's Preliminary Findings Show Indian Point Can Be Shut Down, here

Flyer for distribution here Table Fact Sheet here

Letter to Send to Gov. Cuomo here

Email Cuomo Here

Safety First This Time Licenses for the two reactors at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Westchester are set to expire in 2013 and 2015. The safety of all New Yorkers mandates that they not be renewed. We call on our U.S. Senators and our Governor to oppose extending the life of this hazard for an additional twenty years.

Twenty Million Live Within Fifty Miles Construction began on the plant in 1966—before the disasters of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, 9/11, and, of course, the Fukushima reactor spawning horror in Japan. Today, no one would build a nuclear reactor just 24 miles from a major city on an earthquake fault line. Twenty million people, including all New York City residents, live within a 50-mile radius of Indian Point, which is plagued with mechanical and operational problems and makes an attractive terrorist target. There is no viable evacuation plan.

Sitting by the Hudson -- 1,500 Tons of Radioactive Waste Indian Point has thus far generated 1,500 hundred tons of deadly radioactive waste stored in tanks in 12-foot long spent fuel rods. This waste is deadly for up to 250,000 years. One of Indian Point’s spent fuel tanks has been leaking tritium—a cancer-causing toxin—into the groundwater and the Hudson River. IP’s spent fuel tanks are nearly full. IP’s owner and operator, Entergy, has been transferring some of the waste to dry casks to be stored onsite indefinitely. Should the plant receive a 20-year license extension, an additional 1,000 tons of radioactive waste would be generated and remain on site because there is no national storage repository.

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September 12, 2012

Three Parks testimony before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Click Here

June 8, 2012

NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman won a Landmark Victory challengeing Continued Storage Of Nuclear Waste At Power Generating Stations Across The Country

The U.S. Appeals Court agreed with Schneiderman that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cannot okay re-licensing Indian Point & other nuke plants without rigorous review of risks from spent fuel leaks & fires. Read about it here

NY Times May 6, 2012

TOKYO — Japan’s last operating reactor was taken offline Saturday, as public distrust created by last year’s nuclear disaster forced the nation to at least temporarily do without atomic power for the first time in 42 years.

Important New Report
October 17, 2011

Indian Point
Plant Retirement Analysis

Replacement Options
Reliability Issues
Economic Effects

Click here

3/24/2011 -- While wind power remains the most reliable source of clean energy, German solar output at the sunniest part of the day is now greater than the previous output of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
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Read the report of our June 15th, 2010 meeting with NRC officials here.

State Denies Water Permit

In a major victory for environmental advocates, New York State has ruled that outmoded cooling technology at the Indian Point nuclear power plant kills so many Hudson River fish, and consumes and contaminates so much water, that it violates the federal Clean Water Act.

04/04/2010

Read the rest of the NY Times article here.

NY Times Editorial

Please contact our Governor and Senators and ask them to:

Come out strongly and publicly against relicensing,

Tell the NYS DEC to continue withholding a water-use permit,

Develop genuinely clean alternative energy sources and institute conservation and efficiency measures.

3/19/11

ACTION

E-Mail Gov. Paterson Here
Tell him that he must strongly and publicly demand that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission refuse to relicense Indian Point.
--> Email Cuomo Here

Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
NYS State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
(518) 474 8390

E-Mail Sen. Schumer Here
Message as above.

Hon. Charles E. Schumer
757 Third Avenue
Suite 1702
New York, N.Y. 10017
212-486-4430

E-Mail Sen. Gillibrand Here
Message as above.

Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand
780 Third Avenue
Suite 2601
New York, N.Y. 10017
212-688-6262

Read the Draft 2009 NY State Energy Plan.
Energy sources are on page 3. Indian Point problems, and prospects for non-nuclear energy: see pages 54 - 57
here.

Comment on the plan here.

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Read the Draft 2009 NY State Energy Plan.
Energy sources are on page 3. Indian Point problems, and prospects for non-nuclear energy: see pages 54 - 57
here.

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