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    When the Nuclear Fission Stops:     PSC Seeks Future Without Indian Point
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Nov 30, 2012
    • 5 min

    When the Nuclear Fission Stops: PSC Seeks Future Without Indian Point

    By Roger Witherspoon The two utilities providing electricity to New York City and Westchester County have been ordered by the State Public Service Commission to plan for a future without electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plants. In the first concrete action taken by a state agency to move towards a non-nuclear energy future in the lower Hudson River Valley, the PSC ordered Consolidated Edison and the New York Power Authority “to develop and file a contingency pl
    A Question of Competence: Will Indian Point be Safe for Decades?
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Oct 26, 2012
    • 7 min

    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 in a gesture of exasperation. “Where you see one, there are bound to be more hidden away.” Aleksick should know about these hidden pests. As president of CSI Technologies, Inc., he is one of the nation’s foremost experts on FACs, or Flow Assisted Corrosion, a condition of degradation on the inside of pipes carrying superheated, radioactive w
    Entergy Leaving Gotham Behind
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Dec 5, 2010
    • 6 min

    Entergy Leaving Gotham Behind

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Nuclear has dropped its share of electricity supporting New York City and Westchester County to about 4 percent of the area’s power needs while selling increasing portions of its juice in an open market stretching from Maine to Delaware. The company is spending millions of dollars on an extensive campaign to convince the public that the region would suffer if the nuclear plants at Indian Point were shut and its 2,100
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