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Feb132020

Broad coalition intervenes against Holtec takeover of Indian Point for decommissioning & HLRW management

This includes the State of New York, the Town of Cortlandt, Village of Buchanan, and Hendrick Hudson School District, Riverkeeper, and Safe Energy Rights Group. These intervenors met the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Feb. 12, 2020, deadline for interventions. The NY Attorney General has issued a press release about its intervention.

A related public comment deadline has been extended until March 25 2020. Click here to see the NRC's public comment opportunity announcement, including ways to submit your comments.

See the Riverkeeper action alert, here. It provides a way to submit e-comments.

The Patch reports: "...[T]he Westchester County Executive announced that Holtec has agreed to a public meeting in March."

Re: the NRC public comment opportunity, Manna Green at Hudson River Sloop Clearwater put out the following call:

We are requesting folk from across the country to:

1) Request a public hearing re: the Indian Point License Transfer Application (LTA);

2) File comments by Feb. 24 to NRC on problems with Holtec at San Onofre CA, Pilgrim MA, Palisades & Big Rock Point MI, Oyster Creek NJ, etc. (You do not have to be an intervenor to file comments).

Indian Pt. LTA Docket Nos. 50-003 and 50-247 and NRC-2020-0021.  If you do file comments, please let us know that you have done so.  Please send a copy to me: <mannajo@clearwater.org>.

These challenges to the license transfer from Entergy Nuclear to Holtec International at Indian Point near New York City, for nuclear power plant decommissioning and high-level radioactive waste management (HLRW, irradiated nuclear fuel), are very similar to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' and Pilgrim Watch's interventions against the Entergy to Holtec license transfer at Pilgrim near Boston. In that case, NRC has shown its true colors, rubber-stamping whatever the nuclear corporations ask, and attempting to ignore state government and public watchdog demands for very serious health, safety, environmental, and financial concerns and risks to be addressed.

To learn more about the many skeletons in Holtec's closet, see the annotated bibliography compiled by Beyond Nuclear. Similarly, see the skeletons-in-the-closet listing by Beyond Nuclear about Holtec's scandal-ridden Canadian partner in decommissioning and irradiated nuclear fuel management, SNC-Lavalin. And learn more about Holtec's environmentally unjust irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility scheme in New Mexico at our Centralized Storage website section. See also our website section about the Mobile Chernobyls, by the tens of thousands, that Holtec's CISF would launch, throughout the Lower 48, along truck, train, and/or barge routes that it has thus far kept largely to entirely secret, with NRC's complicity.

Nancy Vann, a watchdog on the Indian Point nuclear power plant, has published "rap sheets" on Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin, as well: 2/16/20 Holtec & SNC-Lavalin Profiles and "Rap Sheet".

DateFebruary 13, 2020 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |