NEW YORK AG SUES NRC: Challenges Indian Point License Transfer

On January 22, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James (photo, above), filed suit at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, challenging the license transfer of Indian Point (IP) nuclear power plant near New York City, from Entergy to Holtec. James' appeal, which comes a year after she, and several local municipalities, unsuccessfully intervened at NRC against the license transfer and called for public hearings, also challenges NRC's approval of Holtec spending $630 million of the $2.1 billion IP decommissioning trust fund on irradiated fuel management, rather than radiological cleanup at the severely radioactively contaminated site. The lawsuit was announced 10 days after Beyond Nuclear wrote James, and other officials, on the matter. MORE.