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Entergy Nuclear Company – Nonchalant About Safety

It’s frightening that Entergy has such a cavalier attitude toward the safety of their nuclear power plants.  Especially, given the fact that Indian Point and Pilgrim rank as the top two reactors with the highest risk of an earthquake causing core damage.  What would it mean to have a Chernobyl or Fukushima scale accident at Indian Point? 

VIDEO Will Entergy learn anything from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan?   Greenpeace USA by Jarred Cobb – May 6, 2011 Entergy, the company trying to continue running dangerous old nuclear plants like Vermont Yankee, Indian Point in New York, and Pilgrim in Massachsusetts, is holding their annual shareholder meeting today. We sent them a letter highlighting the risks of these old plants, and questioning if the company has learned anything from the nuclear disaster in Japan.
Entergy’s mismanagement and checkered safety history at reactors like Vermont Yankee is particularly dismaying for a company whose nuclear plants put so many people at risk. Their CEO J. Wayne Leonard gave a bizarre presentation to analysts and investors last week, using several references from “The Hangover” movie.  One wonders why Mr. Leonard chose that particular movie when his own employees have had drug and alcohol violations on the job.

Unfortunately for tens of millions of Americans who live around Entergy’s aging and dangerous nuclear reactors, this company refuses to take safety seriously.  The Indian Point nuclear plant sits 35 miles north of New York City on two active seismic zones, but the company is still trying to run this plant for another 20 years. Entergy hasn’t seemed to have learned any lessons from the meltdowns at the Fukushima reactors.

It’s frightening that Entergy has such a cavalier attitude toward the safety of their nuclear power plants.  Especially, given the fact that Indian Point and Pilgrim rank as the top two reactors with the highest risk of an earthquake causing core damage.  What would it mean to have a Chernobyl or Fukushima scale accident at Indian Point?
Will Entergy learn anything from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan? | Greenpeace USA

May 8, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA