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Close down Indian Point Nuclear Reactor -say hundreds of New Yorkers

Hundreds of New Yorkers tell the NRC: Shut Down Indian Point! | Greenpeace USA, 4 June 11,”.……At the meeting, NRC officials were evasive and refused to give specific answers to the public’s questions about the lack of an evacuation plan, the impacts from an earthquake, on-going leaks from Indian Point, and more. Representatives of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Eliot Engel underlined the need to involve the public in the evaluation process. Many speakers who took the stage last night called the regulatory agency’s credibility into question and underlined its close ties to the nuclear industry. Indeed, the NRC has never denied a nuclear company’s request for a license extension; it’s nothing more than a radioactive rubberstamp for the dangerous old reactors that threaten millions of Americans.
Hundreds of New Yorkers tell the NRC: Shut Down Indian Point! | Greenpeace USA

June 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general