Latest News About the Campaign to Close Indian Point
Indian Point: What’s Next? An Environmental Justice Community Discussion
Clearwater invites you to an introductory meeting on Indian Point decommissioning and other Environmental and Climate Justice issues on Wednesday, May 26th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Click here to view the event [...]
Clearwater’s Official Comments to PSC on the Joint Proposal Regarding Transfer of Indian Point License to Holtec
Clearwater's Official Comments to PSC on the Joint Proposal "We’re only at the beginning of a long road on which the State and local governments and civil society will need to work tirelessly to watchdog [...]
The Shutdown of Indian Point
The Shutdown of Indian Point: What Happens Now? Indian Point has stood as a distinct landmark of the lower Hudson Valley for the past half-century. It has provided the region with jobs and energy, all [...]
Environmental Action Update: April 2021
Environmental Action Update: April 2021 Indian Point, Regional and National Nuclear Decommissioning Advocacy: 3/30/21 Congressional Briefing: Toward an Evidence-Based Nuclear Energy Policy: Approximately 350 congressional staff, elected officials, agencies and citizens attended this superb briefing. [...]
March 2021 Congressional Briefing Overview
March 2021 Congressional Briefing Overview On March 30 Clearwater and members of the National Decommissioning Working Group sponsored a very successful congressional briefing with the Energy and Environmental Studies Institute (EESI) with 334 people in [...]
How to Help
1. DONATE: Donate to Support Clearwater’s Campaign to close Indian Point
2. Urge your NY State Legislators and Governor Cuomo to Support a Decommissioning Oversight Board (DOB): Clearwater strongly supports the passage of S.8158/A.10236, sponsored by NYS Senator Peter Harckham and Assembly Member Sandy Galef, to create a statewide oversight board to protect the financial and other interests of NY State and its ratepayers during the decommissioning of nuclear energy facilities, starting with Indian Point.
Decommissioning Oversight Board (DOB) Action Toolkit:
- NYS Decommissioning Oversight Board (DOB) Overview: Click here
- Call in Script for your NY State Senator or Assembly Member: Click here
- Call in Script for Governor Cuomo: Click here
- Clearwater Bill Memo in Support of NY State Decommissioning Oversight Board
- Westchester County Letter of Support for Decommissioning Oversight Board
3. Volunteer for the Indian Point Campaign: Contact Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Action Director, mannajo@Clearwater.org, 845 265-8080, x7113 or 845-807-1270 or Matt Salton, Environmental Action Associate, matt@clearwater.org, 914-844-9821
WHY WE MUST CLOSE INDIAN POINT NOW
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima… What’s next?
Nuclear Power is NOT Clean Energy and should not be included in New York’s Clean Energy Standard: Clearwater’s initial Comment and Upcoming Public Hearings on the Clean Energy Standard.
Indian Point is located 25 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River at the intersection of two earthquake faults, the Ramapo Fault and the Stamford-to-Peekskill Fault Line. Indian Point is also sited in the most populous location of any US nuclear plant, with 20 million people living or working within 50 miles of the plant, and experts say that evacuation plans are severely deficient. A catastrophic accident at Indian Point could kill tens of thousands, cause many more long-term cancers, and render NYC and much of the Hudson Valley uninhabitable. (View Map)
It’s time to close Indian Point … Relicensing it for another 20 years is playing Russian roulette with our future and the future of tens of millions of people.
Clearwater is fighting to close the aging, leaking Indian Point nuclear plant, which is reaching the end of its designed 40-year lifespan and applying to renew its license for an unthinkable 20 years. Read a Summary of Clearwater’s Environmental Justice Contention Testimony at Indian Point Relicensing Hearings in Front of Atomic Safety Licensing Board on October 23, 2012.
Indian Point Reading Room
- Clearwater’s Contributions to Closing Indian Point and Why
- Indian Point Brochure
- Dave Lochbaum Video on Radiation Monitoring involved in Decommissioning: Password: !Jvu?B6R
- Indian Point Health & Safety Campaign:
— Health & Safety Resolution Presentation
— Indian Point Health & Safety Resolution
— James Lee Witt Report,Executive Summary
- Reuter’s Timeline of Indian Point Relicensing Filings and Related Events.
- Public Service Commission Public Hearing Document
- Potentially Worse than Fukushima
The meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was a wake-up call that we ignore at our peril. It could happen here, and if it did, the consequences would be much, much worse than they were in Japan. more…
Read Victor Gilinski’s New York Times oped “Indian Point: The Next Fukushima?”
Download the Physicians for Social Responsibility report, “Lessons from Fukushima and Chernobyl”
- Environmental, Health, Economic Costs
Download the Union of Concerned Scientists study “Chernobyl on the Hudson?”
- Elevated Cancer Rates
Health and Environmental Damage
Even without a severe accident, studies already implicate Indian Point in current, measurable health and environmental damage in our area, including increased radiation exposure, elevated cancer rates and massive fish kills. more…
Read about RPHP’s research on elevated cancer rates near Indian Point
View an RNN investigative report on thyroid cancer and Indian Point
- Emergency & Evacuation Concerns – A Growing, Inescapable Threat
Indian Point is aging, embrittled, leaking, obsolete and a growing threat to public safety. Residents could not escape a serious accident if one occurred, because the evacuation plan has been shown to be ineffective and unable to protect the public. more …
Read the Witt report on emergency preparedness at Indian Point
Indian Point Nowhere to Run, video by Tobe Carey
- Earthquake Risk
“Left of the Hudson: Lamont-Doherty scientist says the region is overdue for a big quake”
- Security Concerns
Read The Journal News article: $1.5B lawsuit: Indian Point isn’t secure — Worker seeks damages, claims Entergy makes sham of training
- Replacing Indian Point
Governor Cuomo has taken a strong stance on Indian Point and replacing its power with cleaner, safer alternatives. A new energy infrastructure can create more jobs for New York with safer, cleaner, reliable cost-efficient renewable energy that will put the economy, environment, health and safety of our region on a sounder, safer and more sustainable footing.
Assemby Committees’ Preliminary Findings Show Indian Point Can Be Shut Down
From Shut-down to Cleanup: The Historic Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Deal, January 29, 2014
Expand Evacuation, Emergency Plans Around Indian Point, Study Urges, April 16, 2015
Nuclear Waste & Decommissioning, Forum Sunday May 3, 2015, Stony Point, NY, (video)
High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Risks: Pools & Dry Cask Storage, May 3, 2015
Radioactive and Short on Cash to Pay for Closures – Bloomberg/ 05/03/2015
Decommissioning Fact Sheet, by Bob Alpern
Resources
Watch: “Indian Point Powers Down: A Historic Day for the Hudson” (April 30, 2021)
View Citizens’ Coalition NRC Report card for 2012-2013
Download an Indian Point Fact Sheet
View Clearwater’s Indian Point Campaign Documents and Filings
View the Eyewitness Fukushima:Emergency Responders Conference video ( March 5, 2012)
Download the Eyewitness Fukushima First Responders support materials packet
Read “Giving All Citizens a Voice in the Relicensing Decision”
Read “Challenging Spin, Leveling the Playing Field”
Read Clearwater’s testimony on Entergy front groups to the NRC ….. and the judge’s response
Read “Reactor Core Cooling”, David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists:
Read “A Nuclear Hail Mary – Seawater or Disaster” Roger Witherspoon interviews David Lochbaum, nuclear safety engineer, Union of Concerned Scientists, and a consultant to both industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission