AG Scores Victory In Bid To Shut Down Indian Point (lohud.com)

mdsolar quotes a report from The Journal News: Federal safety regulators used the wrong data to analyze the potential economic impacts of a severe accident at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, a panel of commissioners for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled Wednesday. The ruling, which reversed an earlier finding, will force the NRC to conduct a fresh analysis of the costs of a devastating accident and cleanup at the nuclear power plant in Buchanan, 24 miles north of New York City. The decision was hailed by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, whose office is spearheading the state's challenge to Indian Point's efforts to renew federal licenses for its two reactors. Schneiderman estimates that some 1.5 million workers would be needed in to take part in decontamination efforts in the event of a nuclear mishap, with cleanup costs surging as high as $1 trillion.

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Indian Point is out of service

[mdsolar]

Indian Point is breaking down all the time and NY still has power. It isn't needed.

nuclear is THE green solution

[0111 1110]

It's not the problem. It's the solution. At leat for everyone who is afraid of rising CO2 in the atmosphere. In terms of global warming nuclear plants are the ONLY way. Solar is still impractical because it is way way way too expensive and photovoltaics have only relatively short lifetimes compared even to wind generators. Until/unless someone invents and actually starts making a new kind of solar energy generation technology the choices remain either burning fossil fuels or splitting atoms. Pick one. I'm happy with burning coal for the time being because l like cheap electricity and I don't mind the 1c per century temp increase, but a lot of people here absolutely hate CO2.