ML023640381
| ML023640381 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  (DPR-026) |
| Issue date: | 10/29/2002 |
| From: | Kensicki C - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Miller H NRC Region 1 |
| References | |
| LTR-02-0749, TAC MB6789, Y20020283 | |
| Download: ML023640381 (4) | |
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October 29, 2002 Mr. Hubert J. Miller Regional Administrator 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406
Dear Mr. Miller:
Enclosed is a sample letter I have sent to several elected officials requesting the shut down of Indian Point Nuclear Plant in New York. Please consider this letter and the information it contains.
Thank you Christine Kensicki
Christine Kensicki October 29. 2002 09:00 AM Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Subject:
Please Close Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
Dear Mayor Michael Bloomberg:
The Indian Point nuclear power facility poses an unacceptable risk to the 20 mi~lion people who live in the New York metropolitan area. A terrorist attack on the facility could have devastating consequences, rendering much of the Hudson River Valley and the New York City metropolitan area uninhabitable. With 8% of the nation's population living around it, no other nuclear facility in America is in a more densely populated region. According to an official with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a statement made in 1979. siting and constructing the Indian Point reactor units so close to a populated area "is insane...[and] a nightmare from the point of view of emergency preparedness."
In perhaps what may be the clearest declaration of terrorist threats against U.S. nuclear power plants to date, President Bush said in his State of the Union address that al Qaeda terrorists possess diagrams of U.S. nuclear facilities and that tens of thousands of trained terrorists intent on attacking US targ;ts remain at large, "like ticking time bombs." And a recent report from the National Research Council states that "the potential for 9111 type attacks on nuclear power plants is high" with potential consequences "ranging from reactor shutdowns to core meltdowns with very large releases of radioactivity." Recent news that the 9/11 terrorists had originally planned to target a nuclear facility and have not ruled out doing so in the future is further confirmation of the fact that U.S. nuclear reactors are prime terrorist targets. The plant cannot be defended against terrorist attacks and the evacuation plan -- non-existent for most of us -- is unworkable for the ten-mile radius area it purports to protect. Independent studies show that we can do without the plant's power.
I look to you, as one of the highest elected officials representing our state, to protect the lives and property of New Yorkers, not the financial interests of an out-of-state limited liability corporation making huge profits while we bear all the risks.
I ask you to call at once for the closure of Indian Point's two reactors and to use your considerable influence in Washington to bring about the orderly decommissioning of the plant and the security of its irradiated "spent" fuel.
Please join Westchester county legislators -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- who unanimously called for the closure and decommissioning of Indian Point. I, and the family and friends whom I cherish, are counting on you to protect us.
Thank you for acting on our concerns.
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