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Posted: Thursday, 12 July 2007 6:52PM
“Cuomo: Include Terrorism, Evacuation in Nuclear Licensing”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is demanding that federal officials consider terrorism, evacuation plans and population density as they decide whether to relicense the Indian Point nuclear power plants.
If such factors are included, he said, it could mean the shutdown of the two reactors.
Cuomo announced Thursday that he has filed a brief in support of an appeal undertaken last month by Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano and two New Jersey environmental groups. Spano is appealing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s refusal to change the relicensing criteria.
“This brief raises serious questions about the NRC relicensing process, a process that ignores important factors about nuclear power plant safety and is stacked in favor of plant operators,” Cuomo said in his announcement.”
NOTE: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3424996,00.html
Oil tanker runs aground off New York’s Coney Island
Published: 07.13.07, 07:44 / Israel News
A tanker carrying about 23 million gallons (87 million liters)of diesel oil ran aground off New York City’s Coney Island. No oil spill or injuries were reported.
Something went wrong with the steering system on the ship White Sea around 6:30 am Thursday, causing it to turn off course and run into the sandy bottom of a channel, said Coast Guard spokesman Chief Bob Laura. The tanker, between New York’s Coney Island and Sandy Hook National Park in New Jersey, both beach areas, deployed a boom to contain any spills, Laura said. (AP)