I'm not anti-nuke at all, at least untill more enviornmentally freindly alternatives become viable.
Indian Point 2 is another matter, though. It's common knowledge that this is a plant that was designed and built during a much more secure time, and all those antiquated security defenses were grandfathered into a much more dangerous age. I worked there during the Gulf War, and security was an old, stale joke even then.
It wouldn't have been difficult or expensive to radically improve security at IP2 while I was there, but even though they were supposedly clearing a bit over $1M a day there was never any question of spending more on security then. Now, who knows? But how likely is it when you can see from way across the river (see above photo) that there have been no significant changes in the overall layout of the plant?
And if the reactor dome or fuel pool was ever breached, would you want to be downstream and downwind of Indian Point, like New York City is?
The concern always was that NYC needed the power. If they can do without IP2+3, like the link above claims, it seems that closing the plant and moving the spent fuel and other 'special nuclear materials' would be simple prudence.
Why the hell not?
Indian Point 2 is another matter, though. It's common knowledge that this is a plant that was designed and built during a much more secure time, and all those antiquated security defenses were grandfathered into a much more dangerous age. I worked there during the Gulf War, and security was an old, stale joke even then.
It wouldn't have been difficult or expensive to radically improve security at IP2 while I was there, but even though they were supposedly clearing a bit over $1M a day there was never any question of spending more on security then. Now, who knows? But how likely is it when you can see from way across the river (see above photo) that there have been no significant changes in the overall layout of the plant?
And if the reactor dome or fuel pool was ever breached, would you want to be downstream and downwind of Indian Point, like New York City is?
The concern always was that NYC needed the power. If they can do without IP2+3, like the link above claims, it seems that closing the plant and moving the spent fuel and other 'special nuclear materials' would be simple prudence.
Why the hell not?