NY Attorney General: NRC should revisit Indian Point assumptions

Michael Risinit, TJN

The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, as seen from across the Hudson River in Tomkins Cove Aug. 27, 2013.
Federal regulators and Entergy are ignoring lessons from the Fukushima disaster in Japan and relying on "entirely unrealistic and unreasonable" assumptions about what would happen if there was a severe accident at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, according to the state attorney general.


Those include determining the region could be decontaminated within 90 days, which, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, would require 1.5 million workers. He also said the cleanup's price tag in a worst-case scenario could top 1 trillion dollars, seven times more than Entergy has estimated.

Schneiderman is asking the heads of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review or reverse the approval of what his office said was a flawed evaluation.

"A severe accident at Indian Point could have a devastating impact on the (state), its citizens, communities, reservoirs, and natural resources. It is imperative, therefore, that the . . . analysis accurately reflect the costs of such an accident," wrote Kathryn M. DeLuca and John J. Sipos, assistant state attorneys general.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2014/02/28/ny-attorney-general-nrc-should-revisit-indian-point-assumptions/5906117/