actually the NY Metro area needs to replace Indian Points reactors with new ones. These are really old brittle single wall units that need to be replaced with new state of the art ones. Like the Death Penalty in NY(there was for a while a death penalty signed into law by Pataki, but judicial activism took care of that one and even if they didnt no one would have ever been given it anyway).
You will never see a new reactor in NY....Soooioo we have to keep the remain reactors going at Indian Point, because the power is desperately needed.....it is all a catch 22 cause if you built fossil fuel generation stations the same idiots who want to ban the nuclear will be up in arms about the polution from the fossil fuel ones.
None of this matters. The Professional Anti-Nuclear Movement will ride this puppy into the ground. It is a fund-raising bonanza sent from Heaven. They cannot afford to ignore Indian Point.
The fact that it will destroy the New York Metropolitan Area's economy in Indian Point is closed simply does not matter to the Professional Anti-Nuclear Movement. They're just doing their jobs, and cannot be held responsible for the results.
Didn't the loser Mario shut down a completed nuclear power facility before it had generated a single microwatt?
A case in point is the Shoreham plant on New York's Long Island. Shoreham was a virtual twin to the Millstone 1 plant in Connecticut, both ordered in the mid-60's. Millstone, completed for $101 million, has been generating electricity for two decades. Shoreham, however, was singled out by anti-nuclear activists who, by filing endless protests, drove the cost over $5 billion and delayed its use for many years.
Shoreham finally won its operating license. But the plant has never produced a watt of power. Gov. Mario Cuomo, an opponent of a Shoreham startup, strong-armed New York's public-utilities commission into the following settlement: the power company could pass the cost of Shoreham along to its consumers only if it agreed not to operate the plant! Today, a perfectly good facility, capable of servicing hundreds of thousands of homes, sits rusting.
from this link.