Posted on 10/18/2011 9:25:40 AM PDT by presidio9
Manhattan and the Bronx would be uninhabitable if the accident-prone Indian Point nuke plant suffered a Chernobyl-like disaster, an environmental group charged Monday.
A massive radiation release similar to the 1986 catastrophe in Ukraine could also contaminate Brooklyn and chunks of Queens and Staten Island, according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"The more you learn about Indian Point, the more you know it must close," said Robert Kennedy Jr., a senior attorney at NRDC. "It's too old, it's near too many people, and it's just too vulnerable to fire, earthquake and attack."
The doomsday scenario comes as political titans clash over the aging plant 24miles north of the city, which sits on an earthquake fault, and has been hit by radiation leaks and at least two fires since 2007.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani debuted a series of TV and print ads last week vouching for its safety and seeking to boost its public image - even as Gov. Cuomo crusades to padlock the plant, saying it poses a threat to public safety.
At issue is whether the feds should grant a 20-year renewal to New Orleans-based Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, which runs two active reactors whose operating licenses expire in 2013 and 2015.
Fueling the debate is the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan - and sparked fears a similar disaster at the Hudson River plant could make parts of New York unlivable.
"An accident at an Indian Point reactor on the scale of the recent catastrophe in Japan could cause a swath of land down to the George Washington Bridge to be uninhabitable for generations due to radiation contamination," NRDC says.
It could also require the sheltering or evacuation of up to 5.6 million New Yorkers, the report says.
Entergy vigorously defends its safety record and says its disaster planning is unparalleled.
The company said an earthquake paired with a tsunami couldn't happen at upriver Indian Point. It also said the primitive graphite reactor at Chernobyl had nothing in common with the multiple safeguards deployed at Indian Point.
"It's not valid to simply cut and paste from events that occurred somewhere else in the world and say they could happen here," said Entergy spokesman James Steets.
“................... could cause a swath of land down to the George Washington Bridge to be uninhabitable for generations due to radiation contamination,”
I have no idea why that makes me smile, none at all.
Several single moms, members of minority groups, children, and most important of all, many members of the GLTG group were injured by broken lightbulbs or by electrical shocks last year. Why in Toledo, a home inhabited by recovering alcoholics and dope addicts burned to the ground after an electrical fire. Most of them were back in their old patterns the very same day!
So young Bobby, related to the soon-to-be canonized Jack and Bobby F. Kennedy, is absolutely correct. Electricity in any form is bad for Mother Gaia and the most defenseless of its far too many inhabitants!
Ignorance?
Doubtful.
Being fed up with nonsense might be closer.
Being fed up with nonsense might be closer.
Certainly you are ignorant of NY geography. 99% of the inhabited portion of Manhattan Island lies south of the GWB. Meanwhile, the United States Military Academy at West Point would be closed for the foreseeable millenia.
You might want to stop smiling.
“It is entirely likely that you missed the sarcasm in whatever animadversion I made, which caused you to become so unglued.”
So I will continue to smile. You should smile too.
Not only do you post things you don't understand, but it appears that you haven't mastered the correct usage of the word "sarcastic." I got it that you were trying to be funny. Don't quit your day job.
Many of the unemployed plant workers came to work for our mill and they told us the ridiculous BS they had to put up with and the totally unreal rules of running the place.
Jr. is a Global Warming nut who had ALWAYS been anti-nuke, so I don't believe anything he has to say on the matter. Not to mention the fact that Indian Point was not built, nor is it run by Soviet Workers. At Chernobyl, the operators didn't understand nuclear reactions, and they let the plant run hot and it blew its top. Operators of American nuke plants are well able to handle issues that come up.
*snort* Jack and Bobby might be canonized, but only by the Church of What’s Happening Now, and its liberal followers.
Enough of your blasphemy, Woman!
Adding Bobby and Jack beads to the Rosaries we sell by the roadside to the Massholes who infect us all summer was going to save our town's industrial base. Then, you had to go shootin' your mouth off.
*snort*
Brilliant, my favorite robot!
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