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Critical Nuclear Reactor Bolts Fail at Indian Point 2
By Roger Witherspoon A special inspection of the Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor found that more than a quarter of the stainless steel...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 31, 20167 min read
Dangerous Flaw Threatens to Close Nation’s Nuclear Fleet
Byron Nuclear Power Plant By Roger Witherspoon After four years of increasingly tense internal discussion, seven Nuclear Regulatory...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 4, 20167 min read
Indian Point Contaminates the Hudson River With Uncontrollable Radioactive Flow
By Roger Witherspoon For more than a decade, it has been impossible for operators of the Indian Point nuclear power plant to stop highly...
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 13, 20166 min read
Nuke Plant May Shut to Spare Spawning Fish
By Roger Witherspoon New York State is prepared to close 40 years of intermittent and costly legal wrangling over the annual destruction...
Roger Witherspoon
Jul 19, 20146 min read
NRC Probes Indian Point Security
By Roger Witherspoon The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating possibly major lapses in security at the Indian Point nuclear...
Roger Witherspoon
Nov 22, 20137 min read
Double-Teamed: New York Battles the Feds And Entergy to Close Indian Point Nuclear Plant
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article William Holston was obviously exasperated. For nearly two hours he had fielded the...
Roger Witherspoon
Dec 13, 20127 min read
A Question of Competence: Will Indian Point be Safe for Decades?
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Robert Aleksick was emphatic. “FAC is like roaches,” he said, spreading his arms wide...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 26, 20127 min read
Turning off Indian Point And Keeping the Subways Running
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article For the past decade, Entergy and supporters have proclaimed that its twin Indian Point...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 9, 20126 min read
Dropping by the Millions: NRC Downgrades Indian Point Fish Kills
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article In a stunning change of position, federal regulators have downgraded by a factor of...
Roger Witherspoon
Jul 25, 201210 min read
Indian Point vs. the Hudson River: Hearings Begin on Cooling System Impacts
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article “…EPA’s insupportable assumption that screening technologies are available at nuclear...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 26, 20115 min read
Weapons Upgrade Sought For Indian Point Guards
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Nuclear has asked federal regulators to override New York State’s weapons law...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 8, 20114 min read
Nuclear Plants Face System-Wide Earthquake Safety Review
By Roger Witherspoon The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may force the nation’s nuclear power plants to reevaluate their earthquake...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 2, 20116 min read
Feds Rate Region’s Nuclear Fleet “Safe” But Japanese Problems Fuel Skepticism
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article All six nuclear reactors in the New York/ New Jersey metropolitan area are operating...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 30, 20116 min read
Ravishing the Waterways: DEP vs. the Power Plants
By Roger Witherspoon In an unprecedented move, the environmental agencies of New Jersey and New York have begun forcing scores of their...
Roger Witherspoon
Dec 13, 201011 min read
Q&A: State and Local Power Distribution
Q: How much electricity is generated in the state? A: According to the New York Independent System Operator, which runs...
Roger Witherspoon
Dec 5, 20102 min read
Q&A: Entergy’s Local Presence
Q: How much electricity do Indian Point 2 and 3 produce? A: According to Entergy’s annual report for calendar year 2009,...
Roger Witherspoon
Dec 5, 20102 min read
Reversal of Fortune: Entergy’s Humbling Nuclear Venture
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Corporation’s low key announcement might well have been posted on Craig’s...
Roger Witherspoon
Nov 15, 201011 min read
Unexplained Mishaps Shut Indian Point 3
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article A series of unexplained mechanical failures – including a large hot water leak and the...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 11, 20104 min read
NRC Probes Indian Points’ Troubled Steam Generators
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Federal officials are investigating Entergy Nuclear Corps’ management of its massive...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 7, 20103 min read
Breaking With a Dirty Past
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The Obama Administration is struggling to decide whether to keep or scrap the key Bush...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 20, 20096 min read
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