Even as an independent commission to review the safety of New York’s nuclear facilities has put Indian Point back in the news, there are signs that the plant is letting down its guard along the Hudson River. The Coast Guard has sharply reduced its presence in recent months, and a small military contingent that is Read More
This was supposed to be a bad year for Entergy, the New Orleans–based company that owns the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Westchester County. On the defensive in the months following Sept. 11 about operating a Three Mile Island–sized facility with a flawed safety record just 35 miles north of Times Square, Entergy was Read More
The noisy public debate over the fate of the Indian Point nuclear reactor came to City Hall on May 7, when energy-company executives, state officials and anti-nuke environmentalists testified before the City Council. There were a couple of novel highlights during the hearings-for example, one executive got into a discussion with a council member about Read More
Structural engineer Nausherwan Hasan used to talk about the
sturdiness of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester, 30 miles
north of Manhattan, and took pride over the years as the facility churned out
safe, relatively clean power for much of metropolitan New York. Mr. Hasan knows
about these things: He helped build Indian Read More
